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Detailed List of EventsExhibition: Clipper Ship Sailing Cards in the Bancroft Library August 1 - February 2014 Clipper ship sailing cards first appeared in the 1850s, advertising the departure of a ship on an imminent but indeterminate date. Numerous artists, engravers, and printers turned to this new advertising medium at a time when color-printing processes were improving. The cards were printed letterpress on cardstock, and accented with colorful wood-engraved images or dramatic lettering. Today, The Bancroft Library is home to the largest collection of clipper cards on the West Coast. Exhibit is open 9am - 5pm, Monday through Friday Event: Keepers of the Lost Ark: Behind the Scenes at The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life August 28th Designed for students during UC Berkeley Welcome Week, this behind-the-scenes tour will reveal the many unique resources and events that are available for teaching, study, and personal enrichment. Visitors may even get to see a Lost Ark or two. Movie Night: American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco September 3rd East Bay premier of the epic story of the pioneering Jews of San Francisco. The film makes extensive use of images and documents from The Magnes and The Bancroft Library collections. Panel discussion with Jackie Krenzman, Executive Producer and Lecturer in the UC Berkeley Department of Journalism to follow the screening. Exhibition: Lands/Scapes: On Painting And Jewish Geography September 10 - December 13 This is the first exhibition to highlight landscape art from The Magnes Collection. Spanning the twentieth century and following the paths of Jewish migration, the exhibition offers a new look at the artists' relationship to the sites and spaces they inhabited. From Western European Impressionism to Eastern European Realism, from the Romanticism of the Americas to the Modernism of Israel/Palestine, images of the land were created at the intersection of pictorial traditions and ideological values. Included in the exhibition are nearly thirty works by such artists as Max Liebermann, Jacob Nussbaum, Robert Falk, Moshe Mokady, and Maurycy Minkowsky. Exhibition: Case Study No. 4: Global India: Kerala, Israel, Berkeley September 10 - December 13 The exhibition unveils the extensive holdings of The Magnes documenting the history of the Jewish community in Kerala, South India. The exhibition includes over one hundred individual items, many of which have never been displayed before. The Magnes Collection includes hundreds of ritual objects and textiles, Hebrew books, photographs, archival records and manuscripts in Hebrew, Aramaic, Malayalam, English, and Judeo-Spanish. These materials from Kerala illustrate the history and the customs of one of the oldest communities in the Jewish Diaspora, following its development until its immigration to Israel in the 1950s Event: Special Tour Of Global India: Kerala, Israel, Berkeley September 11th Led by Dr. Barbara Johnson, Professor Emerita, Ithaca College Barbara Johnson, a leading anthropologist specializing in Kerala, consulted The Magnes staff in the exhibition development. Currently a Visiting Scholar in the South Asia Program at Cornell University, Johnson is the author of Oh Lovely Parrot!: Jewish Women's Songs from Kerala (2004) and Ruby of Cochin: An Indian Jewish Woman Remembers (1995). Roundtable: Bolton, His Maps, and The Bancroft Library September 19th Led by Albert L. Hurtado, Travis Chair in Modern American History, University of Oklahoma, Author of Herbert Eugene Bolton: Historian of the American Borderlands Herbert E. Bolton was director of The Bancroft Library for a quarter of a century. During that time Bolton put his stamp on the library through hiring and acquisitions. Bolton was well known for his detailed field work and the production of maps of Spanish exploration. Bolton also drew impressive large maps to support his signature course, "History of The Americas." Mr. Hurtado will explain the development of Bolton's interest in cartography and its continuing importance in The Bancroft Library. Opening Reception: Comics, Cartoons, and Funny Papers: The Rube Goldberg, Phil Frank, and Gus Arriola Archives at Bancroft September 25th All are welcome to attend. Exhibition: Comics, Cartoons, and Funny Papers: The Rube Goldberg, Phil Frank, and Gus Arriola Archives at Bancroft September 26 - February 2014 Phil Frank's long-running cartoon strips Travels with Farley and Farley have recently joined the drawings of Rube Goldberg, one of UC Berkeley's best-known alumni, and Gus Arriola, creator of the ever popular Gordo strip, at The Bancroft Library. In addition to the work of these cartoonists, the exhibit will feature comics by underground artist Dan O'Neill, creator of Odd Bodkins, and Lou Grant, editorial cartoonist for the Oakland Tribune from 1954 to 1986. The show will highlight both the topical and the timeless nature of the cartoon, one of the oldest forms of visual art known to mankind. Exhibit is open 10am - 4pm, Monday through Friday Exhibition: The Berkeley Student Cooperative at 80: We Have Come a Long Way Since 1933 October 1 - March 2014 Fourteen Depression-era UC Berkeley students, guided by the campus YMCA general secretary Harry L. Kingman, established a house that would launch the University of California Students' Cooperative Association. Now known as the Berkeley Student Cooperative (BSC), the student-operated non-profit cooperative has continued to grow since its founding, offering several affordable housing options to UC Berkeley students and those at other Bay Area colleges and universities. This exhibition celebrates the 80th anniversary of the BSC, the largest student cooperative in the United States, with photographs, brochures, publications, correspondence, and other documents drawn from the BSC records and other collections in the University Archives. It explores its origins, traditions, artistic activities, political involvement, and efforts supporting environmental sustainability Exhibit is open during the operating hours of The Doe Library Event: Alumni Weekend Gallery Talk: Comics, Cartoons, and Funny Papers October 4th Led by Jack von Euw, Curator, Pictorial Collections Open House: Parents and Alumni Weekend October 6th Special exhibition tours with Magnes Director Alla Efimova and Curator Francesco Spagnolo, music by Kol HaDov, UC Berkeley's acclaimed Jewish acapella group, Kosher-style hot dogs by Old World Food Truck. Event: Sunday Streets Berkeley October 13th The Magnes opens its doors to participate in Sunday Streets Berkeley, the annual downtown street festival along 17 blocks of Shattuck Avenue. October 13th A public reading by award-winning author Thaisa Frank. Heidegger's Glasses is Frank's startling, surreal debut novel. Part love story and part historical fiction, Heidegger's Glasses evocatively reconstructs the landscape of Nazi Germany from an entirely original and haunting vantage point. Co-presented with UC Berkeley Extension and Litquake, San Francisco's premier literary festival since 1999. Roundtable: Thomas Kuchel: California's Liberal Republican Senator October 17th Led by Jason Bezis, a Boalt Hall graduate who is writing a biography of Senator Thomas Kuchel Thomas Kuchel was a liberal Republican U.S. Senator for California in the 1950s and '60s whose career spanned the Hiram Johnson to Ronald Reagan eras. The talk will focus on the fundamental tensions in his policy work: advocating civil rights and defending his mentor Earl Warren against the John Birch Society and other reactionary forces; balancing California's physical development with natural resources conservation; and promoting California's Cold War military-industrial complex (the backbone of the state's manufacturing economy) while constraining it. His paternal grandfather was among the German emigrants who founded Anaheim in Orange County. Kuchel was The Bancroft Library's keynote speaker in 1968, the University of California's centennial year. Roundtable: Fallout Films: Bruce Conner's Atomic Sublime, 1958 - 1976 November 21st Led by Johanna Gosse, aPh.D. Candidate in History of Art, Bryn Mawr College San Francisco-based artist Bruce Conner made his first short film, A MOVIE, in 1958 at the height of the national anxiety about the atomic threat. Over the following two decades, Conner's film-making practice was framed by the cultural and social fallout of the Cold War. Drawing on his papers at Bancroft, this talk will examine the films Conner produced during this period — including masterful montages of "found footage," psychedelic voyages into expanded consciousness, and intimate portraits of friends and collaborators. It will also analyze major influences on his distinctive apocalyptic vision of postwar America. Event: Panel Discussion On Global India: Kerala, Israel, Berkeley November 21st How did Jewish communities color the multicultural tapestry of the Indian subcontinent? The exhibition "Global India" inspires a discussion with Berkeley faculty from the Center for South Asia Studies and the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, moderated by the Magnes Curator Francesco Spagnolo. Co-presented by the Center for South Asia Studies. |
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