Event: Bancroft Round Table on Thursday, November 21st

The next Bancroft Round Table will take place in the Lewis Latimer Room of The Faculty Club at 12:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 21stJohanna Gosse, PhD Candidate in History of Art at Bryn Mawr College will present Fallout Films: Bruce Conner’s Atomic Sublime, 1958-1976.”

San Francisco-based artist Bruce Conner made his first short film, A MOVIE, in 1958, at the height of 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. Utilizing his papers at the 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–and will unpack the major influences on his distinctive apocalyptic vision of postwar America.

Hope to see you there.

Lara Michels and Baiba Strads
Bancroft Library Staff 



Vendor Visit: Harrassowitz

Berkeley’s Harrassowitz representative Kasia Stasik will be visiting campus on Thursday November 14th.  A presentation on Harrassowitz’s online selection tool OttoEditions will take place from 1pm to 3pm in 303 Doe.  Time will also be reserved for selector questions related to their current profiles and other services Harrasssowitz offers.

For more information, contact Jason Schultz.


JSTOR Ecology & Botany II Collection

UC campuses now have access to JSTOR Ecology & Botany II, expanding coverage from the Ecology & Botany I Collection and broadening the scope in the areas of biological and plant sciences. By 2016 the collection will include at least 80 journals from key institutions, such as the California Botanical Society; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Naturhistorisches Museum; Società Italiana di Patologia Vegetale, Ecological Society of America, and International Association for Plant Taxonomy.