http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/ucb_guh_fhl/rss Recent eScholarship items from Global Urban Humanities/Future Histories Lab Sat, 8 Aug 2026 04:41:10 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/80b0k814 <p>Instructor:&nbsp;&nbsp;Ghigo DiTommaso, Erika Chong Shuch</p><p>Term:&nbsp;Spring 2015</p><p>Course #:&nbsp;Landscape Architecture&nbsp;254 / Theater, Dance, Performance Studies&nbsp;266</p><p>Why Read This Case Study?</p><p>The disciplines of environmental design and of performance both focus on bodies and space, but their teaching methods are often siloed.</p><p>In this graduate theory course, Public Space: Placemaking and Performance, taught by choreographer and performance maker Erika Chong Shuch and urban designer Ghigo DiTommaso, students from disciplines ranging from anthrolopogy to architecture to dance were asked to research notions of public space using methods from both performance and design.</p><p>The results yielded important insights into public space. Perhaps even more importantly, the pedagogical benefits of incorporating exercises such as movement and drawing in disciplines where they are not usually included became clear.</p><p>As one of the earliest classes... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/80b0k814 Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6dg176c3 <p>Instructor:&nbsp;Greg Niemeyer,&nbsp;Ronald Rael</p><p>Term:&nbsp;Fall 2014</p><p>Course #:&nbsp;Architecture 229 / Art Practive 229 / New Media 202</p><p>Why Read This Case Study?</p><p>The rise of digital media and related technologies are rapidly reshaping how cities are planned and managed, and how people experience the urban environment on a daily basis. Environmental sensors, video cameras, electronic data collection, digital maps, satellite photography, and drones (to name a few) are involved in urban service delivery, traffic analysis and control, public safety, wayfinding, monitoring weather and climate events and more.</p><p>This graduate methods studio, Sensing Cityscapes, was led by art practitioner and new media expert Greg Niemeyer and architect and 3-D fabrication innovator Ron Rael. The studio included students from a variety of disciplines including architecture, information science, archeology, public health, geography, city planning, and performance studies.... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6dg176c3 Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3w40664m A Year on Angel Island: A Project of Future Histories Lab and Berkeley Arts+Design--6-minute documentary https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3w40664m Mon, 11 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Future Histories Lab Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1qf52415 A Year on Angel Island: A Project of Future Histories Lab and Berkeley Arts+Design--90-second trailer https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1qf52415 Mon, 11 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Future Histories Lab Future Histories Lab https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1375w6vd A Year on Angel Island: A Project of Future Histories Lab and Berkeley Arts+Design---9-minute documentary https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1375w6vd Mon, 11 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Future Histories Lab Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9xt9351r In Ghostly Matters, the sociologist Avery F. Gordon suggests that we “ponder the paradox of providing a hospitable memory for ghosts out of a concern for justice.” The phrase she italicizes is from Jacques Derrida’s Specters of Marx, as is the concept, though, in Derrida’s original, the paradox is so elaborately convoluted as to seem unable to extricate itself from the idea at hand. In the event, he opts to glimpse no more than a glimpse. Fair enough. Very early on, Derrida says his text will proceed “like an essay in the night.” Mine, however, like its subject, will proceed in bright daylight. This essay is about a protest march that took place on a beautiful spring day, from noon to five, though it was part of something that had already taken place, and would take place again, and, perhaps, was never not taking place, namely protestation. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9xt9351r Fri, 8 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Hejinian, Lyn https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9qx7231g <p>Forming Tibetan Taipei</p><p>On a humid afternoon about five years ago, just off a narrow alleyway bordered by homogenous rows of five-storey apartment structures that line much of the crowded1, subtropical metropole of Taipei City, inside a Tibetan restaurant that occupied the ground floor of one of those narrow buildings, I sat, ostensibly doing ethnography, but really playing with the food I had just ordered. Of course, these two specific events of doing ethnography and playing with food are not necessarily contradictory...</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9qx7231g Fri, 8 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Soriano, John https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7zm7s9kt The roots of giant oak trees rose up to grab me, and the rocks seemed determined to block my path as I scrambled down the slippery, muddy trail to a little creek. Mosquitos bit the back of my neck. What was I doing here in the middle of the French wilderness, “walking” the Camino de Santiago from Le Puy to Conques? Why do they call it a walk? It is a strenuous hike…not just one, but day after day after day after day. On my own pilgrimage along the route, I was exhausted. My toes were crushing each other and every step was torture. Every tiny village was either at the bottom of a steep, craggy mountain or at the top of a hill. Either way, it was a daily scramble up or down. All the books, blogs, films, and friends who came before me didn’t prepare me for this. They call it “walking the Camino” but it is walking, hiking, climbing, scrambling, limping. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7zm7s9kt Fri, 8 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Crawford, Beverly https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7rg2g8zd You never step into the same market twice, never more so than when you wade into the Mercado Abastos, the largest market in Oaxaca City, and one of the largest in Mexico. There&nbsp; is&nbsp; nothing&nbsp; else&nbsp; like&nbsp; it&nbsp; in&nbsp; Oaxaca,&nbsp; especially&nbsp; not&nbsp; the&nbsp; more&nbsp; polite&nbsp; and&nbsp; organized&nbsp; markets&nbsp; near the historic core. This makes it a site for urban pilgrimage, but definitively not a tourist site. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7rg2g8zd Fri, 8 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Shanken, Andrew https://escholarship.org/uc/item/70h0p22z Concrete is ubiquitous. Its plasticity allows for nearly limitless forms. Its mutability results in numerous different appearances. Readily available and accessible, it can be found across the globe. It is, perhaps, nowhere quite as ubiquitous as in cities. In the late post-war years, after the dissolution of CIAM and the rejection of International Style Modernism, with its fey white stucco forms, Brutalism offered a new paradigm for urban reconstruction. Its forms were monumental and heroic, its materials straightforward and robust. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/70h0p22z Fri, 8 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Briggs Ramsey, Sarah https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6657d0ww Travel begins, despite any designs of the traveler to the contrary, with self-serving anticipation. The very act of crossing borders, of encountering linguistic foreignness, sets the individual traveler in a position of vulnerability—at the very least, within the realm of the word. One’s semiotic world becomes looser, more slippery, evasive. In this vulnerability, perhaps, it is a matter of course that the traveler resorts to whatever discourse is available to understand the new world in which travel takes place. Paradoxically, the experience of freedom from meaning often pushes the traveler—who may become the travel writer—back toward well-trod routes, time-honored conventions and cliché. Human and non-human objects observed in the land of travel, captured by the old-new words of this reactionary writer, are then entered into their particular textual economy, static prey to traveler’s representation. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6657d0ww Fri, 8 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Shih, Evelyn https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4v69k374 <p>The story of an urban pilgrimage between settler and aboriginal cultures</p><p>Terra Incognita: No way from here to there?</p><p>The official at City Hall was polite, if disinterested, up until the moment we told her where we wanted to go. Suddenly, her face took on a pinched look, the look of a bureaucrat who is hearing news that might cause a lot of extra work. “<em>Ah non</em>, you can’t walk from here to Kahnawake,” she said...</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4v69k374 Fri, 8 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Anderson, Matthew Terreault,, Sara https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4772f7hg Stories about historic architectural sites of religious function, and the contemporary communities of practicing Muslims who use them, flow through the city of Istanbul. The oral histories I have collected reveal aspects of the use of architecture in the expression of belief and identity amongst “mainstream” Sunnis, minority Islamic traditions of various Sufi orders, and the spiritual lineages of Aleviism. These narratives work together with the sites themselves to build a picture of religious life. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4772f7hg Fri, 8 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Anderson, Angela https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3k34w1fg The Folk Memory Project at Caochangdi WorkstationIn the summer of 2014, at Tsinghua University in Beijing, I gave a paper to my Chinese language classmates and instructors introducing Caochangdi Workstation and its Folk Memory Project. It was an act of translation, both from one language into another and of experience into discourse. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3k34w1fg Fri, 8 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Malcolm, Annie https://escholarship.org/uc/item/36s8t1bk In recent years, the physical structure of cities has evolved, morphing, mutating and becoming more malleable, fluid, and more open to change than the technology and social institutions that generate them. Today, urban settlements globally face increasing flows of human movement, acceleration in the amount and periodicity of natural disasters, and iterative economic crises that modify streams of capital and their allocation to physical components of cities. As a consequence, urban settings are required to be more flexible in order to better organize and resist outside and inside pressures. In this context, there is a lot we can learn from “ephemeral cities,” the outcomes of massive contemporary pilgrimages, when rethinking the forms future cities should take and the strategies to intervene in them. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/36s8t1bk Fri, 8 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Vera, Felipe Mehrotra, Rahul https://escholarship.org/uc/item/365461jf The fictional works of Haruki Murakami have always been structured according to a quest narrative, but Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage explicitly prioritizes this trajectory. The novel deviates from the author’s publications since Norwegian Wood in its confinement to the mundane, chronological sphere, rather than alternating between mimetic reality and “the other world,” or the supernatural, temporally suspended state where the Murakami protagonist negotiates his or her ontological split within a reified terrain of the subconscious. The author’s predilection for metatextual cartography can be traced to the literalization of the psyche into a mind-map, the most facile identification being the subterranean well—ido in Japanese—with the Freudian id. With the exception of a few comparatively realistic prose works, Boku, the omnipresent and interchangeable Murakami (male) hero, is unfailingly propelled on a quest that culminates in a katabasis (surpassing traditional... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/365461jf Fri, 8 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Hong, Tiffany https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2wk1f2rv Since its conception, the United Nations (UN) has often convened in spaces that possess extraordinarily rich performance histories. Examples range from the signing of the UN Charter in the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House to the appropriation of former sites of World Fairs for meetings of the General Assembly and more recent ad hoc conventions held within performing arts centers. These theatres do more than solve the logistics of how to assemble a large number of bodies; these spaces perform and they create the conditions for performative action to occur. This photo essay collects a series of images from the UN Online News and Media Photo Archive which document the history of the organization and its work. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2wk1f2rv Fri, 8 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Richards, Kimberly https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2h33064g Evocative of cloak swaddled figures crossing windswept moorlands, mountain passes and barren deserts to fall prostrate before some bejewelled splendour in a foreign land, pilgrimage remains one of the most documented and well known phenomena of human history, particularly in Medieval Europe. It also offers an as yet poorly tapped well for research into Medieval sensory history. As an experience both accessible to all, although hyper-personal, and as a window into one of the deepest human yearnings (to access a touchstone with the divine), pilgrimage is a well from whose waters scholars are beginning to drink more deeply. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2h33064g Fri, 8 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Locker, Martin https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2dr982r5 From the effects of hydraulic mining in the 19th century, through the combined effects of bay fill in the 20th, to the de-industrialized (and often demilitarized) brownfields of the early 21st, the San Francisco Bay is an exemplary crucible of the often-fraught relationship between cities and the larger ecology that support them. And as the margin’s of today’s bay begin to be returned to a “natural” state through extensive man-made remediation, we seek to question whether the bay can also be a new vessel, of a new kind of relationship between cities and ecologies; one that emphasizes the reciprocal nature of the relationship between urban civilization and natural wild, and avoids oversimplification and image-making in favor of the real complexities of cities and landscapes developing together. As noted by William Cronon, a skeptical attitude about “Nature” is not at all a rejection of the ideals of sustainability and ecological survival; rather, it might be vital to them. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2dr982r5 Fri, 8 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Anderson, Mark de Monchaux, Nicholas Gastil, Ray Smout, Mark Videmsky,, Laci https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1wt9d2zs Rome is one of the world’s most hallowed pilgrimage destinations. Each year, the Eternal City’s numinous qualities draw millions of devout Christians to undertake a pilgrimage there just as they have for nearly two millennia. Visiting the most venerable sites, culminating with St. Peter’s, the Mother Church of Catholicism, the processional journey often reinvigorates faith among believers. It is a cleansing experience for them, a reflective pause in their daily lives and yearly routines. Millions more arrive in Rome with more secular agendas. With equal zeal they set out on touristic, educational, gastronomic, and retail pilgrimages. Indeed, when in Rome, I dedicate at least a full and fervent day to “La Sacra Giornata di Acquistare le Scarpe,” the holy day of shoe shopping, when I visit each of my favorite stores like so many shrines along a sacred way. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1wt9d2zs Fri, 8 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Rinne, Katherine https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0x938378 In 2012, the BBC posted an article about a thirty-year-old man who found his childhood home using Google Maps. As a child, Saroo Brierley was separated from his brother and could not find his way back to their village. He was taken into an orphanage and eventually adopted by a couple with whom he moved to Tasmania. Twenty-five years later, he was able to locate his original home by looking at street views of roads and settlements around Calcutta. This rediscovery seemed little short of miraculous, given both the size of the country and the haziness of his memory. What led him back to his village was Google Earth’s photographic precision: it captured a familiar landscape in a way that came close to his lost experience of it. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0x938378 Fri, 8 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Figlerowicz, Marta https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0wt7x71f One of the Brazilian interior’s fastest growing consumer meccas, Juazeiro do Norte also remains the center of a seemingly traditional religious pilgrimage that draws several million visitors to the city each year. The pilgrims—who have become a national media icon for an older Brazil—pay homage to the priest Father Cicero Romão Batista (1844-1934) in a journey initially triggered by his role in a reputed miracle in 1889. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0wt7x71f Fri, 8 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Slater, Candace https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0sf7t3vs The moving image that confronts a viewer in Kurt Kren and Otto Mühl’s Mama und Papa (1964) is a raucous flurry of flickering parts—mostly body parts—that, more often than not, are almost unrecognizable outside of their gritty yet seductively glistening surface textures. The bodies that appear in the film, including both Mühl’s and Brus’s, are captured from multiple and continually shifting angles as the two engage in various erotic(ized) gestures, from a dry session of coitus more ferarum, to nipple suckling, to indiscernible scenes of fleshiness. These gestures, though, are never shown in their entirety. Instead, they reemerge over and over again, as fragmented, interrupted, and obsessively repetitive image sequences. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0sf7t3vs Fri, 8 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Hoetger, Megan https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0m12q2ks <p>Diasporic Homecoming and the New Indian City</p><p>“We set out, [my father] and my mother and I, for Karol Bagh. ‘15/64 Western Extension Area, Ajmal Khan Road,’ he chanted momentously in the back of the car. We drove through the wide, fluid streets of the bureaucratic area…the entire area was bursting at the seams: shops and warehouses extended out onto the streets, apartments had grown upwards and outwards into every possible gap, and parked cars filled in the rest. We missed our turn and had to do a U-turn, a mistake that cost us half an hour…My father became increasingly upset as we penetrated deeper and deeper into the end-of-day clamour. ‘Karol Bagh used to be a&nbsp;<em>bagh</em>,’ he said, ‘a&nbsp;<em>garden</em>. I used to ride my bike on these streets. What happened?’”—Rana Dasgupta1</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0m12q2ks Fri, 8 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Srinivasan, Ragini Tharoor https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0bx12481 West Nepal provides a unique space to think about pilgrimage in the past. For many centuries, this central Himalayan region lay at the fringes of neighboring states. During the 13th century CE, the Khasa Malla dynasty established a kingdom here with seasonal capitals at Sinja and Dullu, which soon grew to encompass the entire region as well as parts of India and Tibet (Adhikary 1997; Pandey 1997) (Figure 1). With these developments, the region became a key zone of interaction. Capitalizing on pre-existing routes and connections, it connected India to the Silk Road. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0bx12481 Fri, 8 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Hawkes, Jason https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0bg0k4pd Although the South Indian city of Kanchipuram is popularly known as the City of One Thousand Temples, there is no existing prescribed circuit, and no comprehensive temple listing or map to guide visitors.* Rather, the thousands of pilgrims who flood the city daily usually only know about the five most famous temples. Scattered street signs throughout the busy city point the way to these sprawling monuments, which are always crowded and especially thronged at festival times (Figure 1). However, other pilgrims arrive seeking particular temples. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0bg0k4pd Fri, 8 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Stein, Emma Natalya https://escholarship.org/uc/item/011364b0 The gaduliya lohar are the traditional travelling blacksmiths of southeastern Rajasthan, who identify their ancestry as weapon makers of the Rajput rulers of Mewad at Chittorgarh. When Mogul king Akbar invaded the fort, they escaped, and ashamed at the failure of their weapons, vowed never to return to Chittorgarh until Mewad was restored. This identity has carried forward to the present, and still defines them as a community.&nbsp; Throughout their history, they have travelled from village to village, repairing and selling farm and household tools. As cities have expanded and industrialized implements have taken the market, the competition is stiff and work has dwindled. But the draw of the city remains, and many lohar have set up camp in the city, for longer periods and with fewer caravan accoutrements, because ox carts are bulky and urban oxen are expensive to maintain. Yet they remain squatters, treated as outsiders wherever they are, because they are permanently camping,... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/011364b0 Fri, 8 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Bandukwala, Sachin Smith, Melissa https://escholarship.org/uc/item/63d1t4fr <p>Art + Village + City in the Pearl River Delta is a publication produced by the&nbsp;Global Urban Humanities Research Studio, University of California, Berkeley.</p><p>Supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the Global Urban Humanities Initiative at University of California, Berkeley.</p><p>This exhibition is the product of a research studio focusing on the interactions between art, villages and cities in China’s Pearl River Delta. It is the second in a series of three research studios sponsored by the Global Urban Humanities Initiative at UC Berkeley. Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the project is a collaboration between the College of Environmental Design and the Arts &amp; Humanities division of the College of Letters and Sciences. Initiated and co-taught by Margaret Crawford (Architecture) and Winnie Wong (Rhetoric) during the spring semester of 2015, the studio critically investigated a wide range of urban art villages in the Pearl River... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/63d1t4fr Fri, 1 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Crawford, Margaret Lee Wong, Winnie Won Yin https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9d00v67k <p>Location: Women’s Faculty Club Lounge, UC Berkeley</p><p>Date/Time: Friday February 21, 2014, 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.</p><p>‘Mellon Mashup’ directly confronts these issues in a rapid-fire two-part conversation that begins with a group of visiting scholars who have labored successfully in transdisciplinary borderlands, offering reflections on their project: what worked? what didn’t? what lessons can be offered? Session 1 features a group of visiting scholars who labored successfully to produce a transdisciplinary edited volume called GeoHumanities: Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place. The editors reflect on what worked, what didn’t, and what lessons came out of their project Session 2 assembles a group of innovative Cal-based scholars who consider how these lessons and their own experiences inform the Global Urban Humanities’ adventures in transdisciplinary worlds. Following this, a group of Cal-based scholars consider how these experiences could inform the Global Urban Humanities’... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9d00v67k Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9954m64v <p>Instructor:&nbsp;Laura Belik</p><p>Term:&nbsp;Fall 2018</p><p>Course #: Laura Belik</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9954m64v Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7sp2t1rk <p>Location: Bauer Wurster Hall, Berkeley, CA</p><p>Date/Time: Friday, October 23, 2015, 8:30AM-6PM</p><p>This wide-ranging interdisciplinary symposium examined art, commerce, politics, violence, history, and urban space on both sides of the Pacific. Creative artists and scholars explored contemporary performance, film, art, and activism in Mexico City from the Revolution to today. Ruben Gallo of Princeton University gave a keynote presentation examining the place of ruins in Mexico City imaginaries. Discussions of modern and contemporary culture and politics with leading performers, filmmakers, and scholars followed, including Gaston Alzate, Minerva Cuevas, Michael Dear, Ivonne del Valle, Tatiana Flores, Daniel Hernandez, Edward J. McCaughan, Jesusa Rodríguez, Juan Carlos Rulfo, and Maite Zubiaurre.</p><p>As a counterpoint from the other side of the Pacific Rim, Margaret Crawford and Winnie Wong of UC Berkeley presented an exhibition on current art and urbanism in China’s dynamic... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7sp2t1rk Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7507x6j7 <p>Location: David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA</p><p>Date/Time: 9/30/2013</p><p>Reimagining the Urban was a daylong symposium examining art, nature, economic development and equity in the Bay Area metropolis. Artists, curators, real estate developers, environmentalists and social justice advocates gathered to discuss the uses and abuses of the region’s creative and natural resources.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7507x6j7 Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6wf8f0n7 <p>Instructor:&nbsp;Susan Moffat</p><p>Term:&nbsp;Fall 2016</p><p>Course #: CYPLAN 290, RHE 244</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6wf8f0n7 Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5mk213mv <p>Instructor:&nbsp;Susan Moffat</p><p>Term:&nbsp;Fall 2014</p><p>Course #: CYPLAN 298, RHE 244</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5mk213mv Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4347c3cg <p>Instructor:&nbsp;Kevin Block</p><p>Term:&nbsp;Fall 2017</p><p>Course #:&nbsp;CYPLAN&nbsp;198 &amp; 298, RHE 198 &amp; 244</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4347c3cg Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3572z0cw <p>Location: David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA</p><p>Date/Time: 11/1/2013</p><p>Is a map a mirror, a window, a weapon, or a work of art?</p><p>From lines drawn in clay to geographic information systems (GIS), humans for millenia have constructed an understanding of the world through visual representations of space. At this interdisciplinary symposium, mapmakers, users, and critics from the worlds of science, urban planning, architecture, history, and new media examined the ways maps work.</p><p>“Mapping and Its Discontents” was part of the Global Urban Humanities Initiative, a major 3.5-year project supported by the Mellon Foundation. In this joint project, the UCLA Urban Humanities, the College of Environmental Design, and the Division of Arts &amp; Humanities collaborated to bring together scholars and practitioners across disciplines to investigate humans and the environments they inhabit and shape.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3572z0cw Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2rv680fr <p>Instructor:&nbsp;Melody Chang</p><p>Term:&nbsp;Fall 2021</p><p>Course #:&nbsp;CYPLAN 198 &amp; 290, RHE 198 &amp; 295</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2rv680fr Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2kd4q2pz <p>Location: Wurster Gallery (121 Wurster Hall),Berkeley, CA 94720</p><p>Date/Time: 10/08/2018, 8:30 am-12 pm</p><p>Lively discussions about what works--and what doesn’t--in combining methods from different disciplines in order to investigate cities and urban life was the focus of this symposium. What makes for an effective team-taught, cross-disciplinary course? Does creative practice constitute rigorous research? This symposium dug into five years of work in the GUH Initiative and wasof interest to scholars engaged in interdisciplinary teaching and research. It was a great chance for folks who have been involved in one part of the Global Urban Humanities Initiative to learn about the other parts of the elephant.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2kd4q2pz Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/25f6h5c7 <p>Location: Wurster Gallery (121 Wurster Hall),Berkeley, CA 94720</p><p>Date/Time: 10/08/2018, 8:30 am-12 pm</p><p>On June 11, 2014, participants in the UC Berkeley Global Humanities Initiative and the UCLA Urban Humanities Initiative gathered at UCLA’s Perloff Hall to review student projects and reflect on teaching and learning experiences at a symposium called “Anxieties of Interdisciplinarity: Projects in the Urban Humanities.” These are two among of a growing number of initiatives funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in its Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities program, and the UCLA-UC Berkeley teams are meeting for joint symposia about twice a year to share notes and exchange ideas.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/25f6h5c7 Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0ps0m7zk <p>Location: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA</p><p>Date/Time: 11/21/2014, 1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.</p><p>The Public Art/Housing Publics: Conversations on Art and Social Justice Symposium explored innovative collaborations across cultural and social justice sectors. How can we sustain affordable housing and healthy neighborhoods in our communities? How can we sustain a thriving artistic life for our citizens? Most importantly, how can we answer both of these questions together? Timed to coincide with the residency of UC-Berkeley Regents Lecturer, Rick Lowe of Project Row Houses, participants included artists, scholars, civic organizers, and affordable housing developers from around the Bay Area.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0ps0m7zk Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7dc4t2wz <p>Instructor:&nbsp;Ronald Rael, Stephanie Syjuco</p><p>Term:&nbsp;Spring 2018</p><p>Course #:&nbsp;Architecture&nbsp;209 / Art Practice 209</p><p>Why Read This Case Study?</p><p>Mexican citizens have long crossed into the US through the southern border, with numbers of undocumented people from many other parts of the world joining the migrant flow. The many salient human and political dimensions of this flow drew graduate students from a variety of disciplines – architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, art practice, urban design, education, and real estate – to join the graduate interdisciplinary research studio, Borderwall Urbanism, led by architect Ron Rael and artist Stephanie Syjuco. Based on studio-style pedagogy, unfamiliar to many students, the course exposed them to a learning model based on teamwork, frequent iteration of ideas and multi-media work products, and continuous feedback instructors and fellow students.</p><p>In this studio, students studied the... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7dc4t2wz Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1tt7c1bq <p>This publication has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Global Urban Humanities Initiative at the University of California, Berkeley.&nbsp;</p><p>part-urbs.com</p><p>P[art]icipatory Urbanisms has been built on the generous contributions of a wide network of scholars, activists, artists, urban organizations, and professionals. We extend special thanks to our collaborators in New Delhi and São Paulo. Research for and production of this publication was made possible through a generous grant from the University of California, Berkeley Global Urban Humanities Initiative (GloUH), which is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Special thanks to the principal investigators of GloUH, Jennifer Wolch and Anthony J. Cascardi; GloUH project director Susan Moffat and project assistant Genise Choy; UC Berkeley Professors SanSan Kwan and Rudabeh Pakravan; researchers, editorial assistants, and translators Utsa M. Hazarika, Annie Malcolm, Laura Senteno, Ricardo Vagnotti... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1tt7c1bq Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/00v1575t Orientation to the Global Urban Humanities e-Archive https://escholarship.org/uc/item/00v1575t Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities Future Histories Lab https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7685c7cq <p>Instructor:&nbsp;Greg Castillo, Scott Saul</p><p>Term:&nbsp;Spring 2020</p><p>Course #:&nbsp;American Studies 102 / Environmental Design 109</p><p>Why Read This Case Study?</p><p>Cities of the East Bay, such as Oakland and Berkeley, were well-known as centers of political, social, and cultural activist in the 1960s. But less well known is the fact that the East Bay continued to be a site of radical movements throughout 1970s.</p><p>The undergraduate studio, East Bay Revolution, was led by Professor of English Scott Saul and Professor of Architecture Greg Castillo, both experts on local social, political, and countercultural movements in the Bay Area and beyond. They immersed students in archival place-based research related to the history of East Bay activism of the 1960s and 1970s. These students came from diverse fields of study - American Studies, Urban Studies, History, Music, Architecture, Geography, Art Practice, and Conservation and Resource Studies.</p><p>Drawing on... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7685c7cq Fri, 20 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4q5483w3 <p>Instructor:&nbsp;Weihong Bao, Michael Dear</p><p>Term:&nbsp;Spring 2014</p><p>Course #:&nbsp;CYPLAN 291, FILM 240, CHINESE 280</p><p>Why Read This Case Study?</p><p>More than half the world’s population live in cities, resulting in a huge variety of urban forms, cultures, politics, problems and conflicts. Many academic disciplines – ranging from the urban social sciences to history and environmental design – have traditionally taken ‘the city’ as their object of study. More recently, the field of cinema studies has focused on explorations of cities as portrayed and imagined across times, places and cultures.</p><p>This graduate research seminar, The City and its Moving Images, was led by city planner and geographer Michael Dear and Wei Hong Bao, an expert on film, media, and East Asian languages and cultures. The seminar included students from a variety of disciplines including architecture, film studies, performance studies, and environmental science and policy, and East Asian... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4q5483w3 Fri, 20 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0zv7x6cv <p>Instructor:&nbsp;Walter Hood</p><p>Term:&nbsp;Spring 2016</p><p>Course #:&nbsp;Landscape Architecture 203 / City Planning 243</p><p>Why Read This Case Study?</p><p>Museums are among the most important urban institutions – repositories of art, culture, and history; educational opportunities; spaces of community dialogue; and hubs of community life. Many graduate students are alert to the role of museums, seek to learn more, and are eager to work with – and learn from – museums, as partners in their explorations.</p><p>In this graduate research studio, Museum and the City, led by landscape architects Walter Hood and Marcus Owens, students from a variety of disciplines including architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, art practice, and performance studies, worked with the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) on engaging the community in the life of the museum.</p><p>Students studied the origins of OMCA, rooted in Oakland’s Black Power movement and civil rights struggles... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0zv7x6cv Fri, 20 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8x9837zx <p>Rooted in Place: Radical South Asian Storytelling Blooms in Berkeley&nbsp;|&nbsp;Barnali Ghosh (Fall 2022 Speaker Series)</p><p>Lecture, 77 minutes;&nbsp;Part of the Fall 2022&nbsp;Speaker Series (Landscapes of Migration, Incarceration and Resistance)</p><p>Click the title and scroll to the gray box below to access the video.</p><p>Recording of presentation at @BAMPFA Osher Theater; free and open to the public Friday, October 7, 2022</p><p>Speakers: Barnali Ghosh, Artist, Community Activist, and Designer</p><p>Barnali Ghosh talks about creating the award-winning Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour, part of a growing movement of activist-led, place-based storytelling. She and partner Anirvan Chatterjee have led thousands of people through walks on Berkeley streets revealing little-known histories of immigrant freedom fighters in the 1910s and queer and feminist organizers in more recent years. Ghosh also led the campaign to rename part of Berkeley’s Shattuck Avenue... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8x9837zx Mon, 9 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Future Histories Lab https://escholarship.org/uc/item/83f7f0ng <p>Yuriko Kamiya Oral History: A Year in Infamy | Miya Rosenthal (Spring 2022)</p><p>Documentary, 20 minutes; Part of the 2022-2023 A Year on Angel Island Island Project.&nbsp;</p><p>Click the title and scroll to the gray box below to access the video.</p><p>Course Number:&nbsp;COLWRIT R4B (College Writing Programs)</p><p>Course Name:&nbsp;"Reading, Composition, and Research: Images of History”Term</p><p>Taken:&nbsp;Fall 2022Instructor on Record:&nbsp;Patricia Steenland&nbsp;</p><p>Creator Name:&nbsp;Miya Rosenthal</p><p>Year Created:&nbsp;First-Year</p><p>Product description:</p><p>“Oral History of Yuriko Kamiya: A Year in Infamy" aims to shed light on the experiences of families during World War II Japanese American internment. Through Yuriko Kamiya's life, the project utilizes documentary-style oral history, curated photographs, and personal narratives to explore the impacts of the Pearl Harbor bombing on Japanese Americans. The internment of over 125,000 Japanese Americans... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/83f7f0ng Mon, 9 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities and Future Histories Lab https://escholarship.org/uc/item/60n915c5 <p>Border-thinking Through Wartime Incarcerations Environments&nbsp;|&nbsp;Lynne Horiuchi (Fall 2022 Speaker Series)</p><p>Lecture, 87 minutes;&nbsp;Part of the Fall 2022&nbsp;Speaker Series (Landscapes of Migration, Incarceration and Resistance)</p><p>Click the title and scroll to the gray box below to access the video.</p><p>Recording of presentation at @BAMPFA Osher Theater; free and open to the public Friday, September 30, 2022</p><p>Speakers:</p><p>Anoma Peris and Lynne Horiuchi</p><p>Description: Anoma Pieris and Lynne Horiuchi will talk about their new book, <em>The Architecture of Confinement: Incarceration Camps and the Pacific War</em>. The design and location of prisoner of war camps in Singapore and Australia and of concentration camps for Japanese American civilians in the U.S. such as the one at Manzanar tested cultural boundaries and prompted resistance by incarcerated soldiers and civilians alike.</p><p>Lynne Horiuchi is an architectural historian whose work is... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/60n915c5 Mon, 9 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Future Histories Lab https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4kh9n35s <p>Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration&nbsp;|&nbsp;Julio Morales (Fall 2022 Speaker Series)</p><p>Lecture, 75 minutes;&nbsp;Part of the Fall 2022&nbsp;Speaker Series (Landscapes of Migration, Incarceration and Resistance)</p><p>Click the title and scroll to the gray box below to access the video.</p><p>Recording of presentation at @BAMPFA Osher Theater; free and open to the public Friday, November 4, 2022</p><p>Speaker: Julio Morales, Artist and Curator</p><p>Description: Curator Julio Morales talks about his current BAMPFA exhibition, Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration, which considers the cultures and institutions of confinement that have been centuries in the making. The exhibition features newly commissioned works based on art historical images of incarceration. The twelve contemporary artists in the exhibition—Carolina Aranibar-Fernández, Juan Brener, Raven Chacon, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Ashley Hunt, Sandra de la Loza, Michael Rohd, Paul Rucker,... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4kh9n35s Mon, 9 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Future Histories Lab https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1tc592bb <p>Angel Island Oratorio&nbsp;| Performance by Huang Ruo, conducted by Wei Cheng, and performed by the Berkeley Chamber Chorus and the Del Sol Quartet (Winter 2022)</p><p>Performance excerpts, 3 min; This December 3, 2022 performance of Huang Ruo’s Angel Island Oratorio at Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley, was one of two performances that were the centerpieces of a year of curriculum and public programming about immigration and incarceration called A Year on Angel Island. Along with the February 23-26, 2023 performances of Within These Walls, by Lenora Lee Dance, this oratorio for voices and strings provided UC Berkeley students a chance to perform meaningful works of art as a way to explore challenging topics.</p><p>From 1910 to 1940, the Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay processed hundreds of thousands of immigrants from more than 80 countries, most from Asia.&nbsp; Its administration and detention facilities were built in order to enforce the Chinese Exclusion Act... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1tc592bb Mon, 9 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Future Histories Lab https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9v64g49s <p>Instructor:&nbsp;Jennifer Wolch</p><p>Term:&nbsp;Spring 2022</p><p>Course #:&nbsp;CYP 291</p><p>Why Read This Case Study?</p><p>Many graduate students are keenly&nbsp; interested in urban communities, but many of them miss the opportunity to work directly with community-based partners and/or learn as part of a team working in a studio-based setting.&nbsp;</p><p>In this graduate research studio, Buzz&nbsp; Studio: Planning Equitable Cities for People and Pollinators, led by urban planner and geographer Jennifer Wolch and botanist and landscape architect Maria Fernandez Gonzalez, students from a variety of disciplines worked with Friends of Peralta Hacienda Historical Park (PHHP), located in&nbsp; Oakland’s Fruitvale District, on making the neighborhood greener and more pollinator-friendly.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Students studied the research literature on pollinators – bees, birds, butterflies, bats, and many more – and how to design urban neighborhoods to support them. They also... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9v64g49s Thu, 5 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities and Future Histories Lab https://escholarship.org/uc/item/53m4m68h <p>Instructors:&nbsp;Lauren Kroiz,&nbsp;Andrew Shanken</p><p>Term:&nbsp;Spring 2020</p><p>Course #:&nbsp;ARCH 209 / HISTART 290</p><p>Why Read This Case Study?</p><p>How do cities use the urban public landscape to preserve, represent, and memorialize their histories?&nbsp;</p><p>Nowhere is the “memory industry” that shapes the design of memorial landscapes more powerful and pervasive than in Berlin. This studio focused on the complex links between Berlin’s post-reunification urban renewal program designed to jump-start the city’s urban economy, and efforts to create an urban public landscape commemorating violent histories, collective trauma, and reconciliation. The studio used the lens of memory studies to trace Berlin’s uneasy efforts to attract foreign investment and tourists on the one hand, and create a ‘guilt’ environment marked by the preservation and memorialization of urban sites linked to the Holocaust, colonialism, and the Cold War.</p><p>Led by architectural historian... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/53m4m68h Thu, 5 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities Future Histories Lab https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5mh2f2h8 <p>Instructor:&nbsp;Lok Siu</p><p>Term:&nbsp;Spring 2023</p><p>Course #:&nbsp;ASAMST 190 / HUM C132 / ENVDES C132</p><p>Why Read This Case Study?</p><p>Students in “A Radical History of SF Chinatown: Designing a Digital Tour” worked with two community partners to dig deeply into the rich history of this thriving district in San Francisco and share it with a public audience.</p><p>Project-based learning provides opportunities for students to deepen their research and improve a variety of skills. By preparing a public-facing website, students took responsibility for undertaking research in which accuracy is consequential; for creating writing that is clear and compelling; and for creating visuals that are meaningful and effective in conveying information.</p><p>Students created an interactive map of meaningful locations in Chinatown, giving visitors to the website access to an array of articles they wrote on themes including culture, education, housing, public health and public... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5mh2f2h8 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities & Future Histories Lab, UC Berkeley https://escholarship.org/uc/item/01f2x1sm <p>Instructors: Anna Livia Brand, Bryan Wagner</p><p>Term: Spring 2019</p><p>Course #: Landscape Architecture 154 / American Studies 102</p><p>Why Read This Case Study?</p><p>New Orleans: Historical Memory and Urban Design, an interdisciplinary research studio, focused on the ways human history and urban design interact over time. Faculty members Anna Livia Brand (Landscape Architecture) and Bryan Wagner (English) led this undergraduate course, which posed fundamental questions: how are cities designed, and how are such designs reshaped over time – benefiting some residents and neighborhoods while imposing lasting harm on others? How can these multilayered histories be peeled back, allowing the roots of violence and injustice to be revealed and contested? And how might place-based resistance strategies reclaim the past and portend the future?</p><p>This course took students from a variety of academic majors on a journey through the history of New Orleans’ Black communities. They... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/01f2x1sm Wed, 28 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities & Future Histories Lab, UC Berkeley https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4rs1c45v <p>Embodying the Periphery is an&nbsp;interdisciplinary publication sponsored by the Global Urban Humanities Initiatives at the&nbsp;University of California Berkeley.</p><p>This book combines approaches from the design disciplines, humanities, and social sciences to foster interdisciplinary engagement across geographies around the identities embodied in and of peripheries. Peripheral communities bear human faces and names, necessitating specific modes of inquiry and commitments that prioritize lived human experience and cultural expression. Hence, the peripheries of this book are a question, not a given, the answers to which are contingent forms assembled around embodied identities. Peripheries are urban fringes, periphery countries in the modern world-system, Indigenous lands, occupied territories, or the peripheries of authoritative knowledge, among others.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4rs1c45v Tue, 9 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/46m3912n <p>Borderwall Urbanisms: Dispatches from the US/Mexico Border is a publication produced by the Global Urban Humanities Initiative as part of the Global Urban Humanities Advanced Resaerch Studio, at the University of California, Berkeley, and supported by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the Global Urban Humanities Initiative at the University of California, Berkeley. The opinions expressed herein are not necessarily those of the GUH, or of the board of the foundation.</p><p>There are fourteen major sister cities along the United States - Mexico border whose urban, cultural, and ecological networks have been bifurcated by a borderwall. With 650 miles of wall already constructed, and the population in these urban areas expected to grow to over 20 million inhabitants over the next decade, the long-term effects of the wall’s construction must be carefully considered now in order to anticipate the consequences of its incision into a context of rapid growth... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/46m3912n Tue, 9 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Students, Borderwall Urbanism Studio https://escholarship.org/uc/item/44z5r8kr With its all-female leadership and its balance of black nationalism, experimental art, and the politics of respectability, the Berkeley cultural center Rainbow Sign suggests some of the hidden complexities of the Black Arts Movement as it translated itself into the 1970s. Reflecting on their digital curation of the Rainbow Sign archive, the authors suggest that, while a computation-driven strain of digital history has broken much new methodological ground, another strain of digital history-oriented to a larger public and interested in dramatizing the complexities of primary sources through the affordances of digital media-can also yield fresh arguments through the pressure it puts on primary sources to speak to one another. We suggest that the work of digital curation is especially suited for dramatizing the often invisible curatorial work performed by black women such as Mary Ann Pollar, the founder of Rainbow Sign. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/44z5r8kr Tue, 9 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Saul, Scott Rissacher, Tessa https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3v00t20h Many current paradigms of world literature, aligned to world-systems theory or Casanova’s “world republic of letters,” assume a diffusionist model of literature that situates the origins of literary modernity in the West. This model has found particular favour in the privileged case of the novel, but how do things stand with other genres? This essay examines the physiology, a popular quasi-journalistic genre dedicated to the taxonomic description of mores, customs and social types. Popularly associated with the figure of the urban flaneur and subsequently critiqued by Walter Benjamin, the physiology peaked under the July Monarchy in France and gained unprecedented success in Russian letters where it served to generate the basis of a non-bourgeois public sphere, after which it was also adapted to the circumstances of Russia’s own imperial borderlands. This paper outlines the essential contours of the physiology as it arose in France, in terms of its internal poetics as well as... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3v00t20h Tue, 9 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Ram, Harsha https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8x52m39d Professor Linda Rugg (Scandinavian, UC Berkeley) moderates a discussion of the history of art, development, and nature along San Francisco Bay featuring artist Susan Schwartzenberg and Brad McCrea of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission. Louise Pubols of the Oakland Museum of California is respondent. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8x52m39d Mon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities Initiative https://escholarship.org/uc/item/89m8v6n8 <p>On November 13, 2014, Catherine Flynn (English) raised the question of urban knowing, of processes of knowledge that take place outside of familial, social and professional contexts and that depend upon the urban fabric. It looks at the means used to construct and represent such processes in literary and filmic engagements with the city and the megacity. It compares the technical means availed of by Joyce and Schröter: urban (infrastructure, systems of circulation), artistic (stream of consciousness, static camera, montage) and personal (both Joyce and Schröter’s personae engage in silent looking, empathy and mimicry) and considers the pressures put upon these means by the megacity.</p><p>This talk was part of the Reading Cities, Sensing Cities colloquium presented by the Global Urban Humanities Initiative at UC Berkeley.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/89m8v6n8 Mon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities Initiative https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7xd4s48k Takeaways from the symposium. A symposium reflecting on the past five years of the Global Urban Humanities Initiative. Presented on October 8, 2018 in Wurster Gallery. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7xd4s48k Mon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities Initiative https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7x78n7km <p>Professor Nicholas de Monchaux (Architecture and Urban Design, UC Berkeley) moderates a discussion of technology, data, and art with Joel Slayton of ZERO 1 and Jake Levitas of the San Francisco Mayor's Office. Marina McDougall of the Center for Art &amp; Inquiry, the Exploratorium, is the respondent. </p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7x78n7km Mon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities Initiative https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7nc3m68z The day's panels are discussed by two respondents, Maite Zubiaurre (Professor, Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA), and Michael Dear (Professor Emeritus, City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7nc3m68z Mon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities Initiative https://escholarship.org/uc/item/79q295n2 <p>Filmmaker Juan Carlos Rulfo presented “Searching for Identity,” an exploration of Mexico City as the center in which faces, lives, and rich histories come together in highly dramatic social and cultural demonstrations. Mexico City is many cities that live together, but do not know each other.</p><p>Artist Minerva Cuevas presented ""Disidence, Mapping Resistance in Mexico City,"" in which Cuevas explored her work of strategic public interventions, typically characterized by socially engaged and site- specific actions that take place either in public space or museums. </p><p>Theater director and actor Jesusa Rodríguez delivered ""Mexico City: The Insatiable Mouth,"" a sweeping and compelling commentary on the exceptional circumstances of violence and degradation that Mexico is presently undergoing. Rodríguez relates the great difficulty of actions of civil disobedience in a city made of many cities together, in which it is almost impossible to give visibility to a street performance... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/79q295n2 Mon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities Initiative https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6gd6d54h In this video, Robin Grossinger discusses the relationship between maps, landscapes, and ecologies, and notes how his organization, the San Francisco Estuary Institute, has utilized maps to attempt to create dispassionate records of ecological change. Laura Kurgan, of Columbia University's Spatial Information Design Lab, discusses the relationship between allegedly objective data and mapping, noting that "there is no such thing as raw data: it is already a representation." UCLA's Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris closes the session with a response to both speakers. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6gd6d54h Mon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities Initiative https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5qj5q70v The Emerging Canon. A symposium reflecting on the past five years of the Global Urban Humanities Initiative. Presented on October 8, 2018 in Wurster Gallery. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5qj5q70v Mon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities Initiative https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5pp697bh In conjunction with Mapping and Its Discontents, the Global Urban Humanities Initiative hosted a map competition and on-line exhibit called ""See-Through Maps: Maps that Lay Bare their Point of View."" In this video, Susan Moffat, curator of the exhibit and Project Director of the Global Urban Humanities Initiative, introduces the concept. Greg Niemeyer of the Berkeley Center for New Media, one of the co-sponsors of this contest, introduces the final selection of maps and announces the overall winner, Alan McConchie's map, "OpenStreetMap: Every Line Ever, Every Point Ever." https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5pp697bh Mon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5gv7q1dc The symposium welcome and introductions are followed by the keynote address, “Mexico City: from Revolutionary Ruins to Global City and Back Again,” by Ruben Gallo, Professor, Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures, Princeton University. This talk explored the place of ruins in Mexico City’s urban landscape since the Mexican Revolution of 1910 to the present, and argued that a crucial element of urbanism has been repressed from the capital’s imagined space. Invoking psychoanalytic theory, Gallo argued that these images have been repressed from the imaginary in order to create representations of the capital that favor illusions of completeness, wholeness, persistence, and solidity. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5gv7q1dc Mon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities Initiative https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5659337p Maps are also a form of narrative and a form of art. In this video, Katharine Harmon, author of The Map as Art, discusses how narrative contents create maps, and set up the vocabulary of maps. "Maps come when narrative is not enough, or the opposite, narrative comes when the map is not enough."Rebecca Solnit, author of Unfathomable City and Infinite City, discusses the making of maps as a way of knowing places. "I love maps, because maps make my cognition about cities, places." Maps are, in Solnit's view, a way of keeping place and culture alive, and of "making things invisible visible." UCLA's Dana Cuff provides a response to both speakers. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5659337p Mon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities Initiative https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4tr175pd Pedagogy + Faculty Research. A symposium reflecting on the past five years of the Global Urban Humanities Initiative. Presented on October 8, 2018 in Wurster Gallery. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4tr175pd Mon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities Initiative https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4kg5c17f Influence of GUH Courses. A symposium reflecting on the past five years of the Global Urban Humanities Initiative. Presented on October 8, 2018 in Wurster Gallery. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4kg5c17f Mon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/43x4f171 <p>On October 2, 2014, Padma Maitland (Architecture and South and Southeast Asian Studies) &amp; Lawrence Yang (East Asian Languages and Cultures) and Karin Shankar (Performance Studies) &amp; Kirsten Larson (City and Regional Planning and Architecture) discussed their respective publication projects, Urban Pilgrimage and pARTicipatory Urbanisms.</p><p>This talk was part of the Reading Cities, Sensing Cities colloquium presented by the Global Urban Humanities Initiative at UC Berkeley.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/43x4f171 Mon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities Initiative https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3qd8m20p <p>Tatiana Flores (Rutgers) in "Mexico City—Avant-Garde City?" explored how avant-garde movements called for making art inspired by modernity, locating the city as a crucial locus for the creation of contemporary art. From this movement through to contemporary artists working in Mexico City, Flores discusses a fundamental unease about the city as backdrop for avant-garde art.</p><p>Edward McCaughan (Professor, Sociology, San Francisco State University), in his talk “Art, Activism and New Ways of Being Mexican” explored how artists active in social movements have created visual discourses and spaces in Mexico City that have enabled publics to imagine and enact new ways of being Mexican, and how activist art has contributed to the democratization of Mexico City and to greater understanding and respect for the diversity of the city’s inhabitants.</p><p>Journalist Daniel Hernandez, in his presentation "Me Encanta la Ciudad!: The Perils of a More User-Friendly Mexico City," explored... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3qd8m20p Mon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities Initiative https://escholarship.org/uc/item/26x1t9dm <p>Professor Shannon Jackson welcomes participants to a day-long symposium co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Global Urban Humanities Initiative and the Arts Research Center.&nbsp;</p><p>The first session, "Creativity and 'Class': Bay Area Urban Experiments" features Andy Wang of the 5M Project/Forest City; Deborah Cullinan of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and Elvin Padilla of the 950 Center for Art &amp; Education. Professor Margaret Crawford (Architecture) is moderator and discussant.</p><p>This session was part of of Reimagining the Urban: Bay Area Connections Across the Arts &amp; Public Space.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/26x1t9dm Mon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities Initiative https://escholarship.org/uc/item/19r621c8 Professor Susan Schweik (English, UC Berkeley) moderates a discussion of site-specific art featuring Raquel Gutierrez (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts) and Ava Roy and Lauren Dietrich Chavez (both of We Players). Rebecca Novick (Triangle Lab, California Shakespeare Theater) is respondent. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/19r621c8 Mon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities Initative https://escholarship.org/uc/item/19f603km In this video we see the concluding panel for Mapping and Its Discontents, led by Jon Christensen of UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. The day's speakers reconvene for a panel discussion and questions from the audience. Finally Dana Cuff, principal investigator of the UCLA Urban Humanities Initiative, and Jennifer Wolch, Dean of the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design, close the symposium. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/19f603km Mon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/14g4k50p Mapping and Its Discontents begins with a welcome from Anthony Cascardi, Dean of the Arts &amp; Humanities Division of the College of Letters and Sciences at UC Berkeley, and remarks from Berit Ashla, Executive Director of the David Brower Center. Geographer Denis Wood gives the first presentation of the day, a provocative talk about the nature of maps entitled "Rethinking the Power of Maps." Wood discusses the relative youth of map-making--there were, he says, few maps before 1500--and the strong relationship between map-making, the rise of the nation state, and the expression of power. Michael Dear, UC Berkeley, responds to Wood's keynote. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/14g4k50p Mon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities Initiative https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0fp552sd Zephyr Frank, of Stanford University's Spatial History Project, notes that maps can be seductive, and offers two provocative statements: maps do not have to be beautiful; and ""we should make fewer maps."" As Frank notes, ""maps are not an end point but a means to new thoughts and problems."" Eve Blau, from Harvard's Graduate School of Design, discusses the use of historical maps as a research tool, focusing on examples from Central Europe. "Architecture defined built space.... [but] what you see is not necessarily what is there; if something looks like something, it does not always operate as you expect." UCLA's Diane Favro provides a response to both speakers. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0fp552sd Mon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities Initiative https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7n7591rs <p>Part of the Fall 2021 Colloquium (Place-Based Storytelling Techniques and Technologies)</p><p>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 in a layered and unified aesthetic. He devises work through rigorous historical research and creative interviews revealing subversive histories. Eisen’s work expands the dialogue between static and live art as a vehicle to broaden human perspectives and effect social change while honoring queer ancestors and evolving queer culture.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7n7591rs Thu, 9 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Future Histories Lab and Global Urban Humanities Initiative https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7db699jj <p>Part of the Fall 2021 Colloquium (Place-Based Storytelling Techniques and Technologies) </p><p>Michael Epstein a screenwriter, journalist and pioneer in interactive documentaries.&nbsp; He has a Master’s degree in Comparative Media Studies from MIT where he focused on location-based storytelling applications.&nbsp; Through his studio,<a href="http://www.walkingcinema.org/">&nbsp;Walking Cinema</a>, Michael has produced numerous immersive storytelling apps for broadcast clients including MTV, PBS, Audible, and Detour.&nbsp; His 2009 production for PBS was the first app to win an award in a film festival and was declared Best of Boston by the Boston Globe.&nbsp; His interactive production on marine climate change, “Blue Impact,” for the New England Aquarium won the American Association of Museum’s Silver Muse Award.&nbsp; He was also awarded the Gold Muse award for his early Augmented Reality maritime history project “<a href="http://www.harborwalk.org/">Posts from Gloucester</a>”... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7db699jj Thu, 9 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Future Histories Lab and Global Urban Humanities Initiative https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6ck5208r <p>Part of the Fall 2021 Colloquium (Place-Based Storytelling Techniques and Technologies)</p><p>Commons Archive: Developing a Neighborhood Literacy</p><p>“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.”</p><p>–Susan D. Anderson History Curator &amp; Program Manager,‎California African American Museum</p><p>Oakland-based cultural researcher Sue Mark will unpack strategies and questions surrounding Commons Archive, a creative grassroots history project she launched in 2015. Centered at North Oakland’s Golden Gate Library, Commons Archive has been providing platforms for longtime and new neighbors to narrate, describe and share their many histories. In 2010, Black neighbors were just under half of North Oakland’s population; eight years later, only a quarter of residents were Black. Today, the numbers are even lower. Commons Archive’s interactive format preserves... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6ck5208r Thu, 9 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Future Histories Lab and Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6b67z89j <p>Part of the Fall 2021 Colloquium (Place-Based Storytelling Techniques and Technologies)</p><p>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 Seiter join us to share her applied approaches in the curatorial process.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6b67z89j Thu, 9 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Future Histories Lab and Global Urban Humanities Initiative https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5v28c7x1 <p>Part of the Fall 2021 Colloquium (Place-Based Storytelling Techniques and Technologies)</p><p>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 dynamically changing environment or capture the attention of visitors among pre-existing installations?</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5v28c7x1 Thu, 9 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Future Histories Lab and Global Urban Humanities Initiative https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5t66v6cm In the 1950s, the Minnesota Department of Transportation routed the highway connecting the downtowns of Minneapolis and St. Paul through a predominantly Black neighborhood called Rondo, ultimately displacing 750 families through eminent domain. For over 50 years now, Rondo residents have asserted and reasserted control over their own narrative and historical memory. They have done so in part through a process of sharing artifacts and stories called History Harvest, which is the result of an academic-community partnership built on a foundation of shared authority and co-creation. In this discussion, Dr. Rebecca S. Wingo (Director of Public History, University of Cincinnati) will “lift the hood” on the Remembering Rondo History Harvest, outline key components to successful community-led engagement, and reveal the lessons she learned from missteps and planning errors. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5t66v6cm Thu, 9 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Future Histories Lab and Global Urban Humanities Initiative https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4p39n8qm <p>Part of the Fall 2021 Colloquium (Place-Based Storytelling Techniques and Technologies)</p><p>Thurgood Marshall Regional Park – Home of the Port Chicago 50: Converting a Former Military Base into Public Parkland and Celebrating African-American History</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4p39n8qm Thu, 9 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Wahedi, Leyla Nergis Zerin https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4jm6v1kb <p>Part of the Fall 2021 Colloquium (Place-Based Storytelling Techniques and Technologies)</p><p>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 facilitate our ability to tell stories about a particular geography?</p><p>This week, we have two speakers in conversation about their work based in community archives. UC Santa Cruz Professor of Film and and Digital Media Rick Prelinger will join us to present on his Lost Landscapes project, which comes out of the Prelinger film archives. In the Lost Landscapes series, Prelinger has compiled and edited footage from home movies to provide portraits of cities through the lenses of everyday people. Over the last two decades, Prelinger has presented films about San Francisco, Detroit, New York, Los Angeles, and, Oakland.</p><p>Artist and cultural organizer Savannah Wood will share her work helping to preserve the archives of the... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4jm6v1kb Thu, 9 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Future Histories Lab and Global Urban Humanities Initiative https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3r63f6k0 <p>On Dec. 5, 1867, California Governor Henry Huntly Haight used his inaugural speech to rail against the citizenship and voting rights of formerly enslaved Africans, Native Americans, and to oppose immigration from Asia. On December 5, 2017, 150 years later, Rasheed Shabazz contacted the Haight Elementary School PTA and encouraged them to initiate the process to rename Haight School. A year and a half later, the Alameda school board voted unanimously to adopt the name: Love Elementary School. As part of our Hidden Histories series, Shabazz will discuss the campaign to rename Haight and how public history is an opportunity to build relationships and highlight bigger structural issues in communities.</p><p>Speaker Bio: Rasheed Shabazz is a multimedia storyteller, urban planning historian, and youth development professional based in the Bay Area. He was born in Oakland and raised in the West End of Alameda, California. Rasheed studied African American Studies and Political Science... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3r63f6k0 Thu, 9 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Future Histories Lab and Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1203f664 An architect, two theater directors, a scholar of displacement, and two Oakland community leaders joined Future Histories Lab Creative Director Susan Moffat for a wide-ranging conversation about gentrification, community agency, municipal reparations, and the power dynamics of the transitional spaces known as porches. Listen to architect&nbsp;June Grant; Aurora Theater Associate Artistic Director Dawn Monique Williams; Aurora Theater Artistic Director Josh Costello; University&nbsp;of Toronto Professor Karen Chapple; CEO of the Black Cultural Zone CDC Carolyn Johnson; Founder of the Black Liberation Walking Tour David Peters. Co-sponsored by Future Histories Lab and Aurora Theater. In association with the Aurora Theater production of Dael Orlandersmiths’&nbsp;<a href="https://www.auroratheatre.org/stoopstories">Stoop Stories</a>. Watch the recording&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSTIKxbGjfc">here</a>. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1203f664 Thu, 9 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Future Histories Lab and Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/99b323dw <p>On September 25, 2014, Ron Rael (Architecture) and Greg Niemeyer (Art Practice) spoke about their course on "Sensing Cityscapes," in which students create and interrogate tools for collecting data on urban metabolisms. Students are actively partnering with the City of San Leandro to find new ways of collecting and using data to improve city planning.</p><p>This talk was part of the Reading Cities, Sensing Cities colloquium presented by the Global Urban Humanities Initiative at UC Berkeley.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/99b323dw Wed, 8 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6sq1v8j3 <p>On August 28, 2014, Margaret Crawford (Architecture) presented on Art+Village+City in China's Pearl River Delta, a traveling research studio she will be teaching with Assistant Prof. Winnie Wong (Rhetoric) in Spring 2015.</p><p>This talk was part of the Reading Cities, Sensing Cities colloquium presented by the Global Urban Humanities Initiative at UC Berkeley.</p><p>Note: This video does not include the last several minutes of the talk. We apologize for the missing footage.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6sq1v8j3 Wed, 8 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities Initiative https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6dz6120w <p>On October 23, 2014, Nicholas Mathew (Music) gave a presentation on the role of music and sound in the emergence of modern civic sensibilities in Napoleonic Vienna, and how printed music came to shape a new politics of urban pedestrianism.&nbsp;</p><p>This talk was part of the Reading Cities, Sensing Cities colloquium presented by the Global Urban Humanities Initiative at UC Berkeley.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6dz6120w Wed, 8 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities Initiative https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5k6216f8 <p>On October 16, 2014, Shannon Steen (Theater, Dance and Performance Studies) presented research from her project “Creative Class Civil Wars,” which explores the ways our concepts of creativity are shifting to exclude those in the arts. Her presentation examined how those changes are rooted in the history by which “creativity” became a legitimate object of academic research.</p><p>This talk was part of the Reading Cities, Sensing Cities colloquium presented by the Global Urban Humanities Initiative at UC Berkeley.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5k6216f8 Wed, 8 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/54h1898s <p>On September 18, 2014, Georgina Kleege (English) and Christopher Downey (Architecture) spoke about navigating the city as a blind person, with perspectives informed by their professions of writer and designer.</p><p>This talk was part of the Reading Cities, Sensing Cities colloquium presented by the Global Urban Humanities Initiative at UC Berkeley.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/54h1898s Wed, 8 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities Initiative https://escholarship.org/uc/item/27x254cr <p>On September 4, 2014, Darin Jensen (Geography) presented on "Mission Possible," a neighborhood mapping project in San Francisco's Mission District, and on a new project mapping International Boulevard in Oakland, titled “Intranational International Boulevard.”</p><p>This talk was part of the Reading Cities, Sensing Cities colloquium presented by the Global Urban Humanities Initiative at UC Berkeley.</p><p>NOTE: This video does not include the last several minutes of the talk. We apologize for the missing footage.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/27x254cr Wed, 8 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1zw02040 <p>On November 6, 2014, cultural researcher Sue Mark (marksearch) and urban planner/design researcher Anisha Gade (City Planning and Architecture) engaged in a reflective conversation about creative place-making efforts that can influence, empower, and inform community identity during periods of gentrification. They discussed their interdisciplinary project, Communities’ Crossing, which will create historically- and culturally-informed interventions along San Pablo Avenue in the area where Berkeley, Emeryville, and Oakland intersect.</p><p>This talk was part of the Reading Cities, Sensing Cities colloquium presented by the Global Urban Humanities Initiative at UC Berkeley.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1zw02040 Wed, 8 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities Initiative https://escholarship.org/uc/item/15h944s8 <p>On November 20, 2014, Jordan Sand (Japanese History and Culture, Georgetown University) presented his research on the activities of a Tokyo slumlord at the turn of the 20th century.</p><p>This talk was part of the Reading Cities, Sensing Cities colloquium presented by the Global Urban Humanities Initiative at UC Berkeley.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/15h944s8 Wed, 8 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities Initiative https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0xg0d5qz <p>On September 11, 2014, Lauren Kroiz (Art History) presented on Romare Bearden's Berkeley mural, an important work of public art that is the source of the ubiquitous multi-ethnic logo found on everything from City of Berkeley trucks to stationery and brochures.</p><p>This talk was part of the Reading Cities, Sensing Cities colloquium presented by the Global Urban Humanities Initiative at UC Berkeley.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0xg0d5qz Wed, 8 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0wd3j79t <p>Session Two- How to Succeed in Transdisciplinary Research by Really Trying Hard</p><p>A group of innovative Cal-based scholars consider their own experiences and adventures in transdisciplinary worlds. The Open Discussion period allows for audience participation</p><p>-Michael Dear, College of Environmental Design-Janaki Bhakle, History-Dan Chatman, City &amp; Regional Planning-Nils Gilman, History + Social Science Matrix-Jonathan Simon, Law -Weihong Bao, Film/East Asian</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0wd3j79t Wed, 8 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/05x6q8mj <p>On October 9, 2014, Harsha Ram (Comparative Literature and Slavic Languages and Literature) discussed his research exploring what happens to (historical) modernity and (literary/cultural) modernism in Tiflis (Tbilisi), Georgia, a city remote from the great metropolitan centers of Europe and the West.</p><p>This talk was part of the Reading Cities, Sensing Cities colloquium presented by the Global Urban Humanities Initiative at UC Berkeley.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/05x6q8mj Wed, 8 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities