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April 7, 2022

UC Berkeley professor and experimental filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha fascinates with her new film reflecting on China’s complex history and offering a journey into the wealth of Chinese traditional architecture while exploring the hinterlands of self and other in their encounter.

March 30, 2022

HUM 196

Mentored Research Lab
3 units, Class #24594

Unlocatable: Seeing Hong Kong and its Arts
Instructor: Prof. Winnie Wong
Thursday, 2-5pm
Wheeler 212

Mentored Research courses are designed to introduce upper-division students to the research culture on campus in a small group format. You will work closely with faculty members and graduate-student mentors in both seminar-style cohorts and more focused groups.

March 7, 2022

We continue to be a small department with a great reputation—the best graduate students and liveliest undergraduates on campus! We hope you are in a position to help us sustain the excitement of learning here!

The Big Give is just around the corner: Thursday, March 10. #CalBigGive

February 28, 2022

To understand the Ukraine-Russia conflict, look to colonialism 
Ukrainians have been fighting Russian imperialism for hundreds of years
By Linda Kinstler

Click to view the article on Washington Post

Save the Date!

The Rhetoric Department Commencement Ceremony will take place on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 at 2PM in Zellerbach Hall. 

More info to follow.

February 15, 2022

Axelle Karera
Thursday, March 3
5-7PM
188 Dwinelle Hall

January 13, 2022

Saturday, January 29, 2022
2-4pm

Thinking Together in the Present: an unrehearsed conversation with Dutch-American philosopher, journalist, and activist Simon(e) van Saarloos and Matthew Stadler, the editor of ArtsEverywhere’s Polity of Literature series. Presented in collaboration with PS Guelph.

December 1, 2021

The 1921 Prize is awarded annually by the Advisory Council of the American Literature Society for “the best article in any field of American literature.” Read Paul Nadal’s award-winning essay, “Cold War Remittance Economy: US Creative Writing and the Importation of New Criticism,” in American Quarterlyhere.

November 12, 2021

Rhetoric 198: Supervised Group Study: 1-unit
Mondays, 3-4pm (Bi-weekly)
7415 Dwinelle
Class #29821

Supervised Group Study: Junior Proseminar

October 26, 2021