http://calperformances.org Pianist Jeremy Denk comes to Cal Performances, October 24, 2010, with a program that includes György Ligetis Etudes. When in Berkeley in February 2009, he played samples and talked about what makes these works so remarkable.
The Second U.S-China Cultural Forum
Roundtable III (Part 1): Tradition and Innovation in the Visual Arts
LI Shenghong, Executive Vice President of China Calligraphy School of Chinese National Academy of Arts
Dawn Ho DELBANCO, Professor of East Asian Art, Columbia University
TIAN Liming, Distinguished Research Fellow of the China Art Institute of the Chinese National Academy of Arts
Lawrence RINDER, Director of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
California & The Future of Environmental Law & Policy
Welcome and Opening Remarks:
Richard Frank, Executive Director, CCELP, University of California Berkeley
Morning Keynote Speaker:
Peter Gleick, Executive Director, Pacific Institute, Oakland, CA
http://ccelp.berkeley.edu
Diversity in Science and Engineering Faculties: Preparing for the Great Crew Change" Dr. Donna J. Nelson, Department of Chemistry, University of Oklahoma The California Forums for Diversity in Graduate Education, planned by a consortium of public and private colleges and universities from throughout California, have been designed particularly to meet the needs of advanced undergraduates and master's candidates who belong to groups that are currently underrepresented in doctoral-level programs. The groups include low-income and first-generation college students and especially African Americans, American Indians, Chicanos/Latinos, Filipinos, Pacific Islanders, Asian American women, and Asian American men in the arts, humanities, and social and behavioral sciences. Each California Forum for Diversity in Graduate Education will bring together approximately 1,000 pre-selected, high-achieving undergraduate and master's students. The students will explore graduate opportunities and resources by participating in numerous workshops conducted throughout the day. Universities and individual graduate programs offering academic master's and/or Ph.D. degrees are welcome to participate in the recruitment fairs that will take place concurrently with the other planned activities. Note that these events are for all disciplines except MBA programs, medicine, dentistry, optometry, pharmacy, veterinary science, and law, all of which have their own recruiting networks.
For more information, please visit their website at: http://www.ucop.edu/acadadv/forum-for-diversity/recruiters/index.html
Speaker: Ron Egan, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University.
This talk examines the way that the critical and scholarly tradition struggled to find a way to accommodate the woman poet Li Qingzhao (1084- ca. 1150s), who had burst into the largely male domain of writing with a brilliance that could not be denied. But this was a woman's talent, plus it was coupled with a penchant for delivering caustic remarks about other writers of her day (all male), so that it proved difficult for many arbiters of culture to accept. Consequently, the critical tradition found both ingenious and ingenuous ways of reformulating her and making her into someone it could live with and even admire. This talk examines the forces involved in this transformation of Li Qingzhao, which culminated in the late Qing dynasty, was written into the earliest twentieth-century histories of Chinese literature, and is still very much with us today.
A general discussion of the fundamental problem of authenticity and dating in Chinese painting studies, using some examples from the lectures but also others that exemplify the methods and criteria by which good judgments can be made. My arguments of course emphasize the visual approach over the verbal—the reading of inscriptions and seals, etc.—important as those also are.