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11/15/2018 UC Berkeley Mail - CFP: Techniques of Memory, Lauren Kroiz, GUH Fellowships DUE TOMORROW

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Call for Presentations Techniques of Memory Landscape, Iconoclasm, Medium and Power DEADLINE: DEC 20 The Global Urban Humanities Initiative is pleased to announce itsupcoming Spring 2019 symposium Techniques of Memory: Landscape,Iconoclasm, Medium and Power on April 17-18, 2019. This symposium willexplore research, projects and dialogues on memory and monuments. TheCall for Scholars, Artists, Architects and Activists is now available. More

Recent publications by GUH faculty LaurenKroiz Associate Professor of Art History Lauren Kroiz haspublished a new book on the American Regionaliststitled Cultivating Citizens: The Regional Work of Artin the New Deal Era. She also has an essay in theAshmolean catalogue America's Cool Modernism:O'Keefe to Hopper. Kroiz co-taught the GUH courseCity of Memory with Prof. Andrew Shanken, and willbe co-teaching with him the Spring 2020 GraduateInterdisciplinary Studio on Berlin. More

Spring 2020 GUH Fellowships for GraduateStudents and Faculty DEADLINE: TOMORROW NOV 16 The Global Urban Humanities Fellowships forgraduate students and faculty at UC Berkeleysupport research on contemporary and historicalcities that engages approaches from the arts andhumanities, the humanistic social sciences and fromthe disciplines of architecture, landscapearchitecture, urban design, and urban planning.Faculty and graduate student fellows will meet oncea week to discuss their research. Student fellowsreceive up to $21,000 for Spring 2020. Facultyfellows receive course relief from one course for onesemester. More

CfP: GUH Undergraduate Course on Cities at aBay Area Site DEADLINE: TOMORROW NOV 16 The Global Urban Humanities Initiative offersfunding for a team-taught, site-based undergraduateresearch studio course on a Bay Area site for 2019-

11/15/2018 UC Berkeley Mail - CFP: Techniques of Memory, Lauren Kroiz, GUH Fellowships DUE TOMORROW

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2020. We provide support and funding for facultyfrom different divisions to develop curriculum andteach together. Faculty teams must include onefaculty member from the College of EnvironmentalDesign and one from the Arts & Humanities Divisionor from the humanistic social sciences. More

GUH faculty Tom McEnaney on why we thinkwomen sound shrill Comp Lit and Spanish & Portuguese Professor TomMcEnaney, who teaches a class called "SoundingAmerican," says the US has a long history of mencriticizing the way women speak. Soundtechnologies, starting with the gramophone andphonograph, he says, were developed for men'svoices—and distort women's. More

GUH People: Sben Korsh Congratulations to GUH alumnus Sben Korsh, whowas recently appointed as a 2018-2019 EmergingCurator for the Canadian Centre for Architecture.Sben studied architectural history and theory atBerkeley from 2014-2016. Read

Missed a colloquium talk? Read essays aboutThe City and its People speaker series by ourstudents! Our Fall 2018 Colloquium students have beenwriting reflective analyses on the weekly lunchlecture series, The City and its People. Visit theGUH Blog to read about lectures on a wide array ofcities and urban topics, including New Orleans,Lagos, Nigeria and Mexico City! Read

Undergraduate Elective Spotlight: NESTUD 109 Mesopotamian History Spring 2019 TTh 12:30-2pm 109 Dwinelle The world's first empires, writing, scholarship,science, art and technology emerged inMesopotamia (modern Iraq). From the start ofurbanism in the 5th millennium BCE through the endof cuneiform culture in the 1st century BCE, ancientMesopotamia is considered to be the origin of

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Western Civilization. This course surveys ancientliterary masterpieces, such as the Gilgamesh Epic,Creation and Flood Myths, and other literarytexts. Read

GUH PicksTDPS Speaker Series: Incarceration, SocialJustice, Art, and Policy Nov 15, 4-5pm 44B Dwinelle What happens when a person is wrongfullyconvicted? What if we can tell the story of thisinjustice through performance and theater and bringabout change? This panel discussion will addressthe power of political performance made withinprison systems and the people impacted by unjustincarceration practices. The panel will address howperformance and art-making can lead to socialjustice advocacy and policy change. More

LAEP Lecture Series: Nadia Amoroso Nov 26, 4-5pm 112 Wurster Nadia Amoroso has dedicated years of research ontopics related to creative mapping, visualrepresentation in landscape architecture, andGeoDesign to ensure high quality work. Her subjectmatter expertise is carried through in a number ofdesign consultancy suites, including workshops andspeaking engagements to professional andacademic groups. Nadia Amoroso is recognized forher vision in creative cartography and visualcommunication in urban design and landscapearchitecture, which is extensively published. More

OpportunitiesCreative Discovery Grants from Arts+Design DEADLINE NOV 19 5PM. Berkeley Arts + Designis able to offer undergraduate course grants of upto $5,000 to promote innovative pedagogy inCreative Discovery for Spring 2019. Submit aone-paragraph proposal, budget and draftsyllabus online. Grant recipients will be notifiedby end of day Dec 12. More

Ground Up Issue 08-Call for Submissions DEADLINE JAN 12, 2019. Ground Up is theannual publication produced by graduatestudents in the Department of LandscapeArchitecture + Environmental Planning. Issue 08seeks content exploring the concept of HOME—from the hearth to the heartland, from suburbia tosatellites, from genius loci to gentrification. We

11/15/2018 UC Berkeley Mail - CFP: Techniques of Memory, Lauren Kroiz, GUH Fellowships DUE TOMORROW

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encourage submission materials contributed bydistinct voices that speak to the many meaningsof home. More

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