Venue: Bauer Wurster 305 (Formerly known as Wurster Hall) If you’re interested in community-engaged, project-based courses focusing on race, equity, local history and the arts, Future Histories Lab is for you. Come to the info session to learn about our exciting courses, community partners, and how you can earn a Certificate in Urban Humanities. We reveal hidden ... Read more(2 Sep) Future Histories Lab Info Session

Presentation: Can walking tours be an effective measure in countering the loss of historically and culturally significant spaces? How does the expansion of public awareness of the past feed into activism surrounding present day development? What are the benefits of transitioning a live neighborhood tour into a self-guided tour?  On Juneteenth of this year, the ... Read moreBlack Liberation Walking Tour: Live and Recorded Tours | David Peters (Fall Colloquium)

Presentation:What resources are necessary to assemble for strong storytelling? For example, what role does archival research play in composing a story about place? Outside of the archive, what other tools of the landscape are at our disposal when working on site to tell stories about a place? How should a producer handle temporality in a ... Read moreFuture Histories Lab: Augmented Reality and Audio Tours | Susan Moffat

Evidence Over Story, Assembly Over Algorithm | Rick Prelinger Follow the Thread, Pull the Thread, Thread the Needle: Patchwork Projects Towards a Funerary Quilt | Savannah Wood Presentation Description: Most of the projects we will hear about this semester take place on-site, utilizing features of the landscape. What are other digital spaces and archives that ... Read moreAfro Newspaper Archive and Prelinger Archive: Making and Using Archives | Savannah Wood and Rick Prelinger

Presentation: “A Practical Overview of Museum Exhibition Development” How are museum exhibitions made? What are the constraints and advantages to storytelling in an institutional environment? How does something go from a big idea to a multi-part exhibit that visitors can interact with and learn from together? This week we are very lucky to have Sarah ... Read moreExploratorium: Making Exhibitions | Sarah Seiter (Fall Colloquium)

Location:  Bauer Wurster 170 (formerly Wurster Hall) Come see student projects in filmmaking, augmented reality, art installations, and oral history created in recent Future Histories Lab courses. Faculty and students will reflect on the process of working with community partners to co-create projects that reveal hidden Bay Area histories and shape new narratives. Pablo Gonzalez, Lynne ... Read moreFuture Histories Lab Student Showcase

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