http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/ucb_guh_fhl_vil/rss Recent eScholarship items from Videos- Lectures Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:31:19 +0000 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/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/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 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0w28s3mx <p>Session One- The Geohumanities Project: What Worked, What Didn’t?</p><p>Featuring a group of visiting scholars who labored successfully to produce a transdisciplinary volume entitled GeoHumanities: Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place. The editors reflect on what worked, what didn’t, and what lessons came out of the project</p><p>-Jennifer Wolch, Dean, College of Environmental Design-Jim Ketchum, Island Press, Washington DC-Sarah Luria, English, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA-Doug Richardson, Association of American Geographers, Washington DC</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0w28s3mx Thu, 4 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Global Urban Humanities https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9gp2r6ks <p>Illegal: the Theater of the Angel Island Immigration Station’s Paper Sons&nbsp;|&nbsp;Skyler Chin, Jeffrey Lo, and Sita Sunil (Fall 2022 Speaker Series)</p><p>Lecture, 73 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 21, 2022</p><p>Speakers: Skyler Chin and Sita Sunil, Playwrights of Illegal; Jeffrey Lo, Director of The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin, Playwright</p><p>One island, two plays: Skyler Chin and Sita Sunil will discuss their new musical Illegal with Filipino-American playwright Jeffrey Lo, who recently directed The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin, which like Illegal dramatizes the family traumas created by racially exclusionary policies carried out at Angel Island. Skyler Chin was inspired to co-write Illegal by his own ancestors’ experiences... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9gp2r6ks Thu, 28 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Future Histories Lab https://escholarship.org/uc/item/63t6w3f8 <p>Angel Island and Alcatraz: Site-inspired Dance, Theater, and Landscapes of Incarceration&nbsp;| Lenora Lee and Ava Roy (Fall 2022 Speaker Series)&nbsp;</p><p>Lecture, 84 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>Friday, September 9, 2022 Recording of presentation at @BAMPFA Osher Theater; free and open to the public</p><p>Speakers:</p><p>Lenora Lee, Artistic Director, Lenora Lee Dance</p><p>Ava Roy, Artistic Director, We Players</p><p>Co-sponsored by UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies</p><p>Description: Choreographer Lenora Lee and theater director Ava Roy will discuss San Francisco Bay’s Angel Island and Alcatraz Island as creative catalysts and settings for their site-inspired performances addressing migration, incarceration, and resistance.</p><p>Lee’s dance performance Within These Walls was... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/63t6w3f8 Thu, 28 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Future Histories Lab https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5nv572fr <p>Indigenous Memory and Nature Interact: Native Californian Stories&nbsp;|&nbsp;Greg Sarris and&nbsp;Beth Piatote (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>Friday, September 2, 2022 Recording of presentation at @BAMPFA Osher Theater; free and open to the public</p><p>Speakers:</p><p>Greg Sarris, Tribal Chairman, Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria (Coast Miwok) and Author In conversation with Beth Piatote, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English, UC Berkeley; Director, Arts Research Center</p><p>Description:</p><p>Indigenous leader and author Greg Sarris joined Assoc. Prof. of Comparative Literature and English Beth Piatote to discuss how literature and nature intersect with stories of Bay Area Native American history. Sarris shared insights from his memoir Becoming... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5nv572fr Thu, 28 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Future Histories Lab https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3r2785nw <p>Rethinking Place in Asian American Histories of the United States&nbsp;|&nbsp;Catherine Ceniza Choy (Fall 2022 Speaker Series)</p><p>Lecture, 79 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 14, 2022</p><p>Speaker:</p><p>Catherine Ceniza Choy, Professor, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, UC Berkeley</p><p>Catherine Ceniza Choy discusses her new book, Asian American Histories of the United States, in which she argues that Asian American experiences are essential to any understanding of US history and its existential crises of the early twenty-first century. She’ll discuss her work on pandemics, medical labor, and the role of the arts in resistance to dehumanization.</p><p>Catherine Ceniza Choy is Professor of Asian American and... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3r2785nw Thu, 28 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Future Histories Lab https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2ng5r169 <p>Preventing Erasure: How the Angel Island Immigration Station Was Saved&nbsp;|&nbsp;Ed Tepporn (Fall 2022 Speaker Series)</p><p>Lecture, 76 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>Friday, September 16, 2022 Recording of presentation at @BAMPFA Osher Theater; free and open to the public</p><p>Speaker:</p><p>Ed Tepporn, Executive Director, Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation</p><p>Description: Angel Island in San Francisco Bay is a crucial spot marking the history of exclusionary, race-based immigration policy. Its immigration station has sometimes been called “the Ellis Island of the West.” But Angel Island was an ambivalent gateway, a place of incarceration and exclusion for migrants as well as an entry for half a million newcomers from 80 countries, mostly from Asia. Despite its significance, this important historical... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2ng5r169 Thu, 28 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Future Histories Lab https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6x31j87j <p>Black Liberation Walking Tour: Live and Recorded Tours | David Peters (Fall 2021 Colloquium)</p><p>Lecture, 56 minutes;&nbsp;Part of the Fall 2021 Colloquium (Place-Based Storytelling Techniques and Technologies)</p><p>Click the title and scroll to the gray box below to access the video.</p><p>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 Black Liberation Walking Tour launched in West Oakland. The project is a new walking tour, or community-led cultural asset map, of the Hoover Durant neighborhood that celebrates its multi-generational Black history and culture. The tour is self-guided via mobile phone, has nine locations, incorporating QR codes, and takes about an hour. Visitors... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6x31j87j Wed, 20 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Future Histories Lab https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4fd4f34c <p>The Story Center: Storytelling Techniques |&nbsp;Joe Lambert and&nbsp;Brooke Hessler (Fall 2021&nbsp;Colloquium)</p><p>Colloquium Speakers, 60 minutes;&nbsp;Part of the Fall 2021 Colloquium (Place-Based Storytelling Techniques and Technologies)</p><p>Click the title and scroll to the gray box below to access the video.</p><p>StoryCenter Executive Director Joe Lambert and Media Artist Brooke Hessler joins Future Histories Lab to launch our fall 2021 Colloquium: Techniques and Technologies of Place-Based Storytelling. Brooke and Joe presents from their well of experience in teaching storytelling and creating space for others to articulate stories, as well as ground us in elements of story and authorship that will serve as a foundation for the rest of the semester.</p><p>About StoryCenter: Through programs and public workshops, StoryCenter provides individuals and organizations with skills and tools that support self-expression, creative practice, and community building. The founders... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4fd4f34c Wed, 20 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Future Histories Lab