Tag: Exhibits
Orpheu and the Avant-Garde Poetry conference
An all-day conference commemorating the Portuguese literary journal Revista Orpheu will take place this Friday, October 16 at UC Berkeley’s Institute of European Studies. An exhibition will follow.
Exhibit: “Nothing About Us, Without Us” The 25th Anniversary of the ADA
The University Library andBancroft Library
Invite you to an Opening Reception
Thursday, September 17, from 5 to 7 pm
in the Morrison Room, Doe Library,
University of California, Berkeley
TO CELEBRATE THE EXHIBIT
“NothingAbout Us, Without Us”
The25th Anniversary of the ADA
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law on July 26, 1990, by President George H.W. Bush. The ADA is one of America’s most comprehensive pieces of civil rights legislation that prohibits discrimination and guarantees that people with disabilities have the same opportunities as everyone else to participate in the mainstream of American life — to enjoy employment opportunities, to purchase goods and services, and to participate in State and local government programs and services. The exhibition draws on the history of the Disabled, the activism of the 1970s, and events which led to the passage of the ADA.
Speakers:
Arlene Mayerson, Directing Attorney, Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund (DREDF) and author of: Americans With Disabilities Act Annotated: Legislative History, Regulations & Commentary
Lennard J. Davis, Distinguished Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago and author of: Enabling Acts: The Hidden Story of How the Americans with Disabilities Act Gave the Largest US Minority Its Rights
The Exhibit will be displayed in the Bernice Layne Brown Gallery, Doe Library September 17, 2015 – February 12, 2016
Exhibit: “Behind the Beautiful Forevers” at Moffitt Library
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity won the National Book Award (2012) and The Los Angeles Times Book Prize, among many others, and has appeared on numerous “best books of the year” lists. It is also the common reading for this year’s On the Same Page program, and the focus of numerous public events and courses on campus this Fall.
Behind the Beautiful Forevers weaves together the stories of a dozen or more residents of a vast slum near the Mumbai airport, many of whom subsist by recycling garbage thrown away by others.
A new exhibit in Moffitt Library showcases the variety of library collections pertaining to the On the Same Page theme. There are the usual suspects: books, dissertations, scholarly journal articles, and government documents about slum dwellers and waste recyclers in India. Also included are a personal narrative in Marathi, maps (historical and contemporary), pictorial works, statistics, magazine articles, and articles about poverty in Mumbai published in The Times of India of 1876 and from the same publication in 2005. The exhibit also includes video clips from the Media Resources Center collection.
The exhibit will be up until mid-October.
The Bay Area Book Festival in Berkeley this weekend!
Daniel Alarcón – Fabiano Alborghetti – Claudia Bernardi – Carmen Boullosa – Lorna Dee Cervantes – Melania Mazzucco and lots more.
On Exhibit: Highlights and Shadows
May 7 – September 4, 2015
The Bancroft Library Gallery
Open Monday – Friday, 10am – 4pm
The gift from the Reva and David Logan Foundation includes more than 2,000 titles. The Logan Collection comprises some of the most sought-after and significant books by American and European masters of photography. This gift brings Berkeley’s scholarly resources for the study of photojournalism, press photography, and documentary photography to the national forefront.
On Exhibit: Berkeley’s Ivory Tower: The Campanile at 100
February 16 – November 2, 2015
The Bancroft Library Rowell Cases
Open during the operating hours of The Doe Library
Sather Tower, also known as the Campanile, looms large as a physical structure and as a widely recognizable symbol for the UC Berkeley campus. This exhibition celebrates the centennial of the landmark through photographs, letters, architectural drawings, illustrations, newspaper clippings, ephemera, and other holdings from the University Archives and The Bancroft Library manuscript and pictorial collections.
Oulipo, la littérature en jeu(x)
The Oulipo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle – Workshop of potential literature) is the oldest literary group in the field of French contemporary literature. The Oulipians have been working on a new reading and writing of literature since 1960. The constraints they use to write are often inspired by mathematical and ludic structures. Though closely followed by faithful fans, known to language games lovers, widely used by teachers in creative writing workshops, the Oulipo is still little known to the general public.
While this exhibition is on display through February 15 only at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, it provides an opportunity to highlight some of Berkeley’s vast holdings by Oulipians such as Raymond Queneau, François Le Lionnais, Georges Perec, Italo Calvino, Oskar Pastior, Jean Lescure, Jacques Roubaud, and more.
Ses also:
- Oulipo: ouvroir de littérature potentielle (2014)
- Four cold chapters on the possibility of literature: leading mostly to Borges and Oulipo (2014)
- Le voyage d’hiver & ses suites (2013)
- 50 ans d’Oulipo: de la contrainte à l’oeuvre (2012)
- Anthologie de l’OuLiPo (2009)
- Oulipo compendium (2005)
- hundreds of individual titles if you search OskiCat by series La bibliothèque oulipienne
Exhibit: Exhibits celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement
FSM@50
Moffitt Library Lobby
September 24, 2014 – January 5, 2015
Highlights the rich variety of library materials available to researchers of the Free Speech Movement, including magazine interviews, legal documents, yearbooks, student publications, oral histories, leaflets, DVD clips, music, and many more.
Commemorating the Free Speech Movement 50th Anniversary
Bancroft Library, Bancroft Corridor between The Bancroft Library and Doe Library
September 22, 2014 – May 29, 2015
The exhibition revisits this pivotal student activist movement through photographs, letters, publications, handbills, and other materials housed in the University Archives and Bancroft manuscript collections.
Design Radicals: Creativity and Protest at Wurster Hall
Environmental Design Library, 210 Wurster Hall
October 16 – December 19, 2014
The shock waves of Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement of 1964 reverberated within Wurster Hall, transforming the College of Environmental Design into a Laboratory for experiments in countercultural art and politics. Design Radicals surveys student and faculty ventures in the graphic art of anti-war protest, hands-on research into commune building and the creation of ecologically sustainable structures, and efforts to recast architecture, landscape architecture and community planning as participatory enterprises. In telling the story of Wurster Hall’s Design Radicals, the rich holdings of the Environmental Design Archives and the privately held Docs Populi poster collection will provide inspiration for a new generation of design activists. The College of Environmental Design Library will display posters, images, and artifacts of Berkeley’s expanded field of countercultural design practice and pedagogy.
New on Exhibit: California Captured on Canvas
October 8 – March 6, 2015
The Bancroft Library Gallery
Open 10am – 4pm, Monday – Friday
This visually compelling exhibition showcases The Bancroft Library’s collection of more than 300 paintings, a number of which have never been exhibited before. It presents California as both a vast landscape of mountains, ocean, and forests, and as an intimate place that has been home to its many different inhabitants.
New on Exhibit: Commemorating the Free Speech Movement 50th Anniversary
September 22, 2014 – May 29, 2015
The Bancroft Library Corridor Cases
Open 9am – 5pm, Monday – Friday
This exhibition revisits some of the key events of the Free Speech Movement through photographs, letters, publications, handbills, and other materials housed in the University Archives and Bancroft manuscript collections.