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Detailed List of EventsExhibition: Fiat Lux Redux: Ansel Adams and Clark Kerr Through March 8th The renowned photographer Ansel Adams is remembered primarily for his compelling landscape photography, but his commercial photography, less known, reveals his mastery in other ways. University of California President Clark Kerr commissioned Adams and writer Nancy Newhall to create a book about the University to help convey the importance of Kerr's famous Master Plan for Higher Education. Adams captured the immense vitality of the expanding University showing students, faculty, buildings, and landscapes of the campuses. The Bancroft Library holds more than 600 master prints created and signed by Adams. Those selected for the exhibition reveal the amazing quality of his pictures. Many have not been shown before and those displayed demonstrate the brilliance of Ansel Adams's vision of the University in ways that digital reproductions and prints in books cannot. Exhibit is open 10am - 4pm, Monday through Friday Exhibition: Glorious Past, Glorious Future: Celebrating California Memorial Stadium Through July 31st This exhibition explores the colorful history of California Memorial Stadium, from its predecessor athletic fields and original dedication in 1923 to its 2012 reopening, following renovation and seismic retrofitting. An array of material, drawn largely from University Archives' collections, traces the rise of this campus icon. Exhibit is open during the operating hours of The Doe Library Exhibition: Modern Jewish History 101: The Art Files Through May 31st A panorama of Jewish life in the 20th century as told through images from the vast art collection at The Magnes. Paintings and sculptures by prominent artists illustrate key historical moments from pogroms to emigration to the Holocaust. The artists' biographies are telling in their own right, revealing stories of global migration, Nazi persecution, trauma, and restitution. Exhibit is open 11am - 4pm, Tuesday through Friday Lecture: Computing and the Practice Of History February 13th Led by Daniel Cohen, Avenali Resident Fellow in History, UC Berkeley A discussion about digital humanities and thinking programmatically about the impact of new technology on research in the humanities and the interpretive social sciences. Daniel Cohen has developed the principal opensource bibliographic management system Zotero, led the creation of several digital archives, and helped found The Humanities and Technology (THAT) Camp; and he is leading the Press Forward Initiative dedicated to the advancement of web-based scholarly publication. Lecture: Case Study No. 3 | Sound Objects February 19th Led by Shalom Sabar, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem In advance of Purim, Professor Shalom Sabar will be in conversation with Francesco Spagnolo, curator of Sound Objects, about the role of Jewish ritual objects in Jewish life, museum collections, and scholarship. Followed by Opening Reception Roundtable: Southern and Californio Convergence in Southern California: General Andrés Pico and the Chivalry Democrats, 1846-1861 February 21st Led by Daniel Lynch, Ph.D. candidate in the UCLA Department of History and Bancroft Library Gunther Barth Fellowship recipient Focusing on the life of the native-born Californio Andrés Pico, this talk explores how two groups of southern Californians — Southerners and Californios — mediated the region's incorporation into the United States. After leading Californio insurgents to their sole victory in the Mexican-American War, Pico launched a successful American political career as a state legislator. He joined the pro-slavery "Chivalry" faction of the state Democratic Party to forge a powerful regional political alliance between Southerners and Californios. This unusual alliance shared goals of keeping taxes low, protecting land ownership, masculine honor and female virtue, and maintaining hierarchies of race, class, and gender. Event: Tragic Komixs: Immigrant Identity in Translation February 21st Led by Marina Temkina, poet, and translator Boris Dralyuk Marina Temkina is considered one of the most important Russian poets of her generation. Born in St. Petersburg, she emigrated from the former Soviet Union in 1978 and now lives in New York. She writes on gender, Russian-Jewish identity, and immigration with a sense of history lived through and expressed as an intimate experience. Boris Dralyuk holds a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA, where he currently teaches. His award-winning poems, translations, essays, and reviews have been published broadly. Support provided by the Genesis Philanthropy Group. February 28th Led by Yahil Zaban, Diller Post-Doctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley "The Jewish Mother" has become an icon in film, fiction and popular culture. Her image reflects the yearning for lost childhood, family and traditional community; but this sense of enchantment and nostalgia is accompanied by a perception of the mother as an intimidating figure who forces her children to grow up and thus banishes them from their childhood. In this talk we will explore aspects of this emblematic image and try to explain how the mythification of the Jewish mother has shaped the Jewish modern sense of community. March 7th HaMisrad ("The Office"), a version of the British and American sitcom The Office, is a mockumentary set in a branch of the fictional "Paper Office" supplies company in the industrial city of Yehud. Like the original series HaMisrad lampoons office life, as well as gender and ethnic relations. In this case the office and warehouse include native-born secular Jews, Arabs, Orthodox Jews, and Russian and Ethiopian immigrants. Event: Immigrants, Cantors, and Klezmers March 12th Led by Mark Slobin, Music and Americans Studies, Wesleyan University A distinguished ethnomusicologist, Slobin examines through music the complex intersection of the audible and the visible in terms of 'soundscapes.' He is author of the award-winning publication Fiddler on the Move: Exploring the Klezmer World where he uncovers the intimate connection between style and stereotype in the representation of musical practice among Jewish immigrants. Event: A Sweet Diaspora Song: Paths of Jewish Music in America March 12th Performance by Michael Alpert In a performance-conversation with musicologist and curator Francesco Spagnolo, Alpert will retrace the salient moments of his musical path, including Yiddish culture in California, the rise of Klezmer music since the 1970s, the collaboration with violinist Itzhak Perlman, the immigration of Soviet Jews to America, and the resurgence of Jewish culture in Eastern Europe. Roundtable: The Lives and Loyalties of UC Berkeley's Pensionados March 21st Led by Adrianne Francisco, Ph.D. candidate in the UC Berkeley Department of History and Bancroft Study Award recipient This talk offers a brief social history of the Filipino pensionados at UC Berkeley between 1903-1916. Pensionados were students sent to the United States for university training by the Philippine government between 1903 and 1940. The presentation explores the pensionados' encounter with the 'empire' at Berkeley, their visions of home and exile, and their efforts to negotiate Americanization and U.S. imperialism. Event: The City of Tebtunis and the Study of Ancient Egyptian Society April 2nd Thirteenth Annual CTP Distinguished Lecturer Professor Kim Ryholt, University of Copenhagen, will speak about the current excavations at Tebtunis. April 4th Months ahead of his father's release from prison, Avshalom's reality starts to change. Since his father was sentenced to three years in jail for domestic violence, his mother has become the sole provider for her family of seven. Avshalom dropped out of school and created an alternative reality based around the sport of Parkour, in which he was a superhero living on the edge. FreeFlow accompanies the internal and external conflicts that Avshalom and his mother experience during the months before his father's return. Event: Holocaust Remembrance Day April 7th Details forthcoming Lecture: Children of Chabannes April 7th Led by Lisa Gossel, author and filmmaker Screening and discussion with Lisa Gossel of her Children of Chabannes. The Emmy-Award winning documentary has been praised as "one of the most heartening Holocaust films ever made — splendid, informative and emotionally involving" (Los Angeles Times). April 8th Gossel's second film is about six Palestinian and Israeli teenaged girls who came to the U.S. in 2002 to get to know their enemies as human beings, and how that transformative experience compares with the realities of their lives at home in the Middle East over the next seven years Roundtable: The Mother Tongue in the Uttermost West: Yiddish-Language Print Materials in the Magnes Collection April 18th Led by Eli Rosenblatt, Ph.D. candidate in the UC Berkeley Jewish Studies Program and Curatorial Intern at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life This talk explores the collection of Yiddish-language print materials published in California that is housed at Magnes. The collection includes a wide variety of novels, poetry collections, pamphlets, literary journals, and rabbinic commentaries published by Eastern European Jews who settled on the California coast between 1881 and 1924. The modernist literature contained in the collection and the Californian Yiddish literary circles it represents help us grasp the global dimensions of Yiddish literary movements. They offer a unique vantage point from which to discuss the circulation of Ashkenazi Jewish culture between its heartland in Slavic Europe and the Americas, Southern Africa, the Middle East, and Western Europe. Event: The Former Prophets: Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings: A Translation With Commentary April 18th Led by Robert Alter, author Robert Alter's award-winning translation of the Hebrew Bible continues with the stirring narrative of Israel's ancient history. To read the books of the Former Prophets in this riveting translation is to discover an entertaining amalgam of hair-raising action and high literary achievement. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, Alter is the Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. April 20th Special tours with Director and Curator of The Magnes. Exhibition: Colors of California Agriculture April 26 - July 31 Opening Reception April 25, 5-7pm This exhibition will highlight photographer Peter Goin's and geographer Paul Starrs's California Agriculture Archive in the context of Bancroft historical holdings on agriculture in California. After completing their book Field Guide to California Agriculture — the first comprehensive survey on the subject since the 1970s — Goin and Starrs donated a sizeable archive of photographs, photographic digital files, maps, and other pictorial materials — such as panoramic views and a portfolio of exhibition photographs — to Bancroft. Field notes and correspondence files will also be part of the exhibit. Exhibit is open 10am - 4pm, Monday through Friday May 2nd A fascinating profile of Trio Lescano, a musical group of Dutch Jewish sisters who could really swing. Stylistically similar to the Andrews Sisters, the Trio was enormously popular in Italy in the 1930s and 1940s, with their hit songs "Anna" and "Tulip Time." Sandra, Giuditta and Caterinetta grew up on Holland, the daughters of Hungarian circus artist Alexander and Dutch operetta singer Eva Leschan. Ultimately their recording contract was cancelled in 1943 because their songs were declared anti-Fascist. This lovely documentary features rare, found footage from the Fascist period of their unique performances. Event: The Friends of the Bancroft Library Annual Meeting Date and location TBA. Details forthcoming. Event: The Oral History Class of 2013: A Regional Oral History Office Celebration Date and location TBA. In late spring, ROHO will celebrate the "Oral History Class of 2013." This year's event will recognize recently completed projects and interviews, including the 200 people interviewed as part of the Rosie the Riveter oral history project. |
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