Presentation Description:Thurgood Marshall Regional Park – Home of the Port Chicago 50: Converting a Former Military Base into Public Parkland and Celebrating African-American History Brian W. Holt Biography:Brian W. Holt serves as the Chief of Planning, Trails, and GIS at the East Bay Regional Park District, the largest urban regional park district in the nation. ... Read moreNational Parks and Regional Parks: Telling History in Parks | Kelli English and Brian Holt (Fall Colloquium)

Commons Archive: Developing a Neighborhood Literacy “Commons Archive is a historical preservation program that re-thinks the archive as a place of privilege and de-colonizes our thinking about what's worth preserving.” --Susan D. AndersonHistory Curator & Program Manager,‎California African American Museum Oakland-based cultural researcher Sue Mark will unpack strategies and questions surrounding Commons Archive, a creative grassroots ... Read moreMarksearch: Social Practice Art | Sue Mark (Fall Colloquium)

Biography: Seth Eisen is a San Francisco-based artist creating a hybrid of live performance and visual media. He engages LGBTQ history as a living, breathing dialogue by researching lost legacies and reflecting his findings on stage. Central to his artistic vision is the combining of puppetry and object manipulation with visual art, writing and dance ... Read moreEye Zen Presents: Performing Queer History | Seth Eisen (Fall Colloquium)

Michael Epstein a screenwriter, journalist and pioneer in interactive documentaries.  He has a Master’s degree in Comparative Media Studies from MIT where he focused on location-based storytelling applications.  Through his studio, Walking Cinema, Michael has produced numerous immersive storytelling apps for broadcast clients including MTV, PBS, Audible, and Detour.  His 2009 production for PBS was ... Read moreWalking in Place: Using AR to Recover Fillmore’s Redevelopment Histories | Michael Epstein (Fall Colloquium)

Location: Bauer Wurster Hall (formerly Wurster Hall) Room 315A for enrolled UC Berkeley studentsPublic attendees can join the lecture at this zoom link. Biography: Walter Hood is the creative director and founder of Hood Design Studio, a cultural practice working across art, fabrication, design, landscape, research, and urbanism, in Oakland. Hood is also the David ... Read moreHood Studio: Landscape and Memory | Walter Hood (Fall Colloquium)

This event will be livestreamed + live captioned on ARC’s YouTube Channel. Register on Eventbrite here and receive email reminders. Watch the livestream on YouTube here. This event is presented by the Arts Research Center and Engaging the Senses Foundation, and co-sponsored by the Black Studies Collaboratory, Future Histories Lab of the Global Urban Humanities Initiative, and the ... Read moreBlack Nature, Poetry, and Coexistence: Camille T. Dungy & Ross Gay

Location: Bauer Wurster Hall (formerly Wurster Hall) Room 315A for enrolled UC Berkeley studentsPublic attendees can join the lecture at this zoom link. Biography: Barnali Ghosh is a Berkeley based designer, community historian, artist, and walking/biking advocate. Ghosh is the co-creator of the monthly Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour, one of the city’s ... Read moreBerkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour: Performing the Unseen | Barnali Ghosh (Fall Colloquium)

Learn how to earn an undergraduate or graduate Certificate in Urban Humanities by taking just three courses including a project-based, community-engaged Future Histories Lab Humanities Studio. If you are interested in interdisciplinary, future-oriented explorations of stories of place, this Certificate, sponsored by Future Histories Lab and the Global Urban Humanities Initiative, is for you! Questions? email susanmoffat@berkeley.edu.

Join us on February 23, 6 pm to learn more about Summer 2022 course: Hidden in Plain Sight taught by Catherine Covey. HUM 133AC (#15475) / ENV DES 133AC (#15421) / AMERSTD 110AC (#15485)Summer Session C, 3 units, Lecture CourseMWF 10 am -12 pmInstructor: Catherine CoveyFulfills the elective requirement for the Certificate in Urban Humanities Hidden ... Read moreInfosession: Hidden in Plain Sight (Summer Courses 2022)

Location: Lower Sproul Plaza Come visit the Future Histories Lab table at the Summer Opportunities Fair and learn how you can earn a Certificate in Urban Humanities with just three courses. Come learn about our exciting projects and about our great summer courses including Hidden in Plain Sight: Public History in Public Space.

Explorations in Arts + Design at BerkeleyUC Berkeley students may register in HUM 20Fridays 11:30 am to 1 pmOsher Theater, BAMPFAAugust 26, 2022 – December 9, 2022Co-sponsored by Berkeley Arts + Design and Future Histories Lab Come in person to hear artists, activists and scholars explore themes of exclusion, belonging, and resistance across geographies and genres including film, dance, theater, ... Read moreLandscapes of Migration, Incarceration and Resistance Speaker Series

An Evening with Charles Yu and Philip Kan Gotanda  On the Same Page Presents – Interior Chinatown:An Evening with Charles Yu and Philip Kan GotandaZellerbach Hall Charles Yu will be in conversation with UC Berkeley faculty member Philip Kan Gotanda, Professor of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies. Professor Gotanda has been a major influence in ... Read moreOn the Same Page Presents – Interior Chinatown