Marianne Constable has been selected to be the inaugural recipient of the Distinguished Rhetoric Faculty Fellowship. The award was established in 2024 by two UC Berkeley rhetoric alums — Bettina Duval and Dana Slatkin — to provide two years of funding for awardees to pursue research projects.
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December 16, 2024
November 19, 2024
Mario Teló (Rhetoric, Ancient Greek & Roman Studies, and Comparative Literature Departments) was joined by Judith Butler (Comparative Literature Department) on Novemeber 6, 2024 for a Berkeley Book Chat presented by the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities. A recording of the conversation is available.
Interplay examines five unique experiments in the field of game design –Schema, Vivarium, Biotopy, Interplay and Nephila. In the course of the book, each is explored as a vehicle to apprehend the unconventional configurations of intelligences that are today emerging from innovations occurring within the field of game design.
Samera Esmeir and Daniel Boyarin presented talks at "The Anti-Zionist Idea: History, Theory, & Politics" held at the University of Toronto on November 8th 2024. To see recordings of the presentations, see the links below:
"Anti-Zionist Theory and Practice" panel featuring Nasser Abourahme (Bowdoin College) and Daniel Boyarin (UC Berkeley).
September 13, 2024
Aliosha Pittaka Bielenberg, a PhD student at UC Berkeley's Department of Rhetoric, has been awarded the Modern Greek Studies Association's 2024 S. Victor Papacosma Graduate Student Essay Prize for his paper "Thinking about Music and Tradition in Cyprus."
The citation written by the prize committee reads as follows:
September 6, 2024
Ramona Naddaff, Associate Professor of Rhetoric and founding director of Art of Writing, interviewed Sonali Deranayigala, author of Wave, the New York Times bestseller and PEN Ackerley Prize (2013) winning memoir about all-consuming grief in the wake of a tremendous loss: In 2004, Deraniyagala was on vacation with her family on the coast of Sri Lanka when a tsunami struck, killing her husband, their two sons and her parents.
September 3, 2024
Rhetoric PhD candidate p. feijó has published a second book in in Portuguese, Episódios de Fantasia & Violência.
From the publisher, Orfeu Negro:
August 27, 2024
Faith Enemark, Department Manager & Academic HR Analyst for the Departments of Rhetoric, Film & Media Studies, has received the 2023–24 Golden Bear Staff Achievement Award in the Letters and Science Division.
July 24, 2024
We cordially invite you to join us on Friday, October 11, 9-10AM PST for a virtual Q&A session with our PhD Admissions Chair, David Bates. This exclusive opportunity is designed for prospective applicants like you to gain valuable insights into our application process and program details.
June 17, 2024
Professor Marianne Constable has been awarded a 2024 Law & Society Association Stan Wheeler Mentorship Prize.
The Stan Wheeler Mentorship prize is given each year to a member of the Law and Society community who is regarded by their peers and students as an outstanding mentor for graduate, professional, or undergraduate students working on issues of law and society. To learn more about the Stan Wheeler prize see the award announcement on the Law & Society association website.
May 31, 2024
Professor James Porter will deliver the keynote lecture, ""Auerbach's Theory of the Sublime", at the conference, Erich Auerbach: eine synoptische Perspektive zur „verborgenen“ Theorie/Erich Auerbach: una prospettiva sinottica sulla teoria “nascosta”, in Villa Vigoni, Italy, July 7-11, 2024.
May 30, 2024
On May 14, 2024 Winnie Wong gave a talk at the University of Washington as part of The Katz Distinguished Lectures in the Humanities Series, "The Many Names of Anonymity: Rethinking Export Art." The lecture introduced the Chinese painters of the global maritime trade, based in the port of Guangzhou (Canton), circa 1700-1850.
May 24, 2024
May 23, 2024
We are thrilled to honor the recent achievements of our exceptional graduate students, who have secured prestigious fellowships, grants, awards, and placements. Congratulations to all on your well-deserved successes!
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS
Aliosha Pittaka Bielenberg
US Department of Education, Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Award, Turkish Language Study in Istanbul (Summer 2024)
May 10, 2024
April 29, 2024
On April 25–28, Mario Telò participated in the seminar entitled "Comment vivre maintenant?" organized by the Center Pompidou as the last event of Judith Butler's residency. This was an opportunity to think about Butler's work in relation to the times of devastation we are facing now.
On July 2, the Freud Museum in London will organize a conversation between Judith Butler and Mario Telò concerning Mario's book Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler, which will be out at the end of May.
Nasser Zakariya, Associate Professor and Head Undergraduate Advisor, was awarded Phi Beta Kappa Northern California Association’s 2024 Teaching Excellence Award. Congratulations, Nasser!
April 18, 2024
In the 2024 Princeton Seminar in Poetry and Poetics, April 15-17, James Porter took audiences through the philosophies set forth in the fragments of Heraclitus(link is external) (6/5th centuries BCE) and
March 26, 2024
Niobes: Antiquity, Modernity, Critical Theory (Ohio State University Press) edited by Mario Telò and Andrew Benjamin was published in February 2024.
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