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Detailed List of EventsEvent: New Directions in Oral History February 16th Guest speaker Tony Platt discusses controversies surrounding Native American burial sites. Roundtable: Rain of Gold: A Century of Circular Labor Migration from Mexico February 16th Led by Israel Pastrana, Bancroft Study Award Recipient This talk explores the continuing circular pattern of labor migration from Mexico to the American Southwest. Tracing his own family's path from Jalisco, Texas, Arizona, and California, Mr. Pastrana offers insights about citizenship, migration, and the future of ethnic Mexicans in the USA. Event: Closing reception for "Bullets Across the Bay" February 24th Featuring Mark Coggins, Sheldon Siegel, Janet Dawson, Diana Orgain, and Simon Wood. Join us as local mystery authors read and discuss influential passages from detective and crime fiction set in the San Francisco Bay Area. Roundtable: The Worlds of Oratorian Devotion in 17th and 18th Century Mexico City March 15th Led by Benjamin Reed, Reese Fellowship Recipient The talk investigates the Oratorian devotion to the Italian Saint Philip Neri (1515-1595) in colonial Mexico City. Although the Oratorian archive was dispersed in the 19th century, Mr. Reed re-imagines its dimensions from accounts of tax collectors for Spain's Crusades, clergy seeking canonization of Mexican saints, and life in the City’s women's shelters. Exhibition: A Place at the Table: A Gathering of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Text, Image, and Voice April 4 - July You are invited to a grand party. Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas are your hosts. Gathered in one room there are over 150 years of Americans who embody a rainbow of diversity, but have one thing in common—a non-normative sexual orientation. Here are the old and the young of many races and ethnicities. In text, image, and voice these individuals have taken their unique and often difficult life experiences and transmuted them into beautiful and fierce art. In 1919 a Crow Indian named Woman Jim explained life as a berdache in four words: "That is my road." For the LGBT guests at this party—the poets and the novelists, the cartoonists and the classical composers, the drag queens and the blues singers, the starving artists and the superstars—this is their road. Exhibit is open 10am - 4pm, Monday through Friday Visit the companion online exhibit: Event: A Place at the Table Opening Reception April 4th The Friends of The Bancroft Library together with Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas invite you to a salon celebration to mark the opening of the exhibition A Place at the Table. The public is welcome to attend. For more information, please call 510-642-3781 Exhibition: All Hail to the Chief: A History of US Presidential Visits to Cal, 1891-2002 April 9 - December 1 Drawing on records and documents in the University Archives, this exhibition highlights campus visits by ten US Presidents. Note: Women at Cal exhibition continues in the Rowell Cases through March 30, 2012. Exhibit is open during the operating hours of The Doe Library Event: Electronic Records Management Symposium April 17th A symposium designed for campus records managers and record creators to learn how best to meet the challenges of managing electronic records, including born-digital materials. For more information contact Josh Schneider at jschneid@library.berkeley.edu. Event: CTP Distinguished Lecturer Event April 17th Dioskoros of Aphrodite: Reading the Hellenic Culture of Late Antique Egypt with Antiquity's "Worst Poet" Please RSVP to soknebtunis@berkeley.edu. Roundtable: Manuel Lozada's Indigenous Rebellion: A 19th Century Tale of Capital, Race, and the Struggle Over Territory in Mexico April 19th Led by Diana Negrin da Silva, Bancroft Study Award Recipient In January 1873, rebel leader Manuel Lozada was captured by liberal creole General Ramón Corona and publicly executed shortly thereafter. Lozada had led an agrarian revolt of indigenous and mestizo fighters whose land had been taken by plantation owners after the 1857 reforms of President Benito Juárez. This conflict epitomizes the political, economic, and ethnic transformations of 19th century Mexico. Roundtable: The Political Economy of Gold, Money, and Loyalty: Californians and Greenbacks in the Civil War Era May 17th Led by Michael T. Caires, Gunther Barth Fellowship Recipient The 1848 discovery at Sutter's Mill started not only a gold rush but also an antagonistic relationship between Californians and the Federal government. With easy access to gold, Californians resisted use of depreciated paper money during the Civil War. Yet as greenbacks came to symbolize support for the Union, how could Californians profess support while undermining the means of financing the war? Mr. Caires examines Californians' struggle with this question. |
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