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Academy Award nominee Demián Bichir discussed his work and the borderland characters he often portrays during a visit to CLAS and UC Berkeley. Best known in the United States for playing leading roles in "A Better Life," the FX series "The Bridge," and the Showtime series "Weeds," the Mexico City native's next film, "Death in Buenos Aires," is set in Argentina.

Fractures, Alliances and Mobilizations in the Age of Obama: Emerging Analyses of the 'Tea Party Movement' Panel 1: New Forms of Activism on the Right: The Tea Party - Emergence of a Movement? Presenters: Christopher Parker, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Washington Ruth Rosen, Professor Emerita of History, University of California, Davis; Visiting Professor of History, UC Berkeley ...

Hélène Cixous presented her lecture as the 2005-2006 Una's Lecturer at the Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley. Cixous is one of the best-known of the late-20th-century "French feminists." Her work, often considered deconstructive, is known for its experimental writing that crosses the traditional limits of academic discourse into poetic language. In addition to studies of Derrida and Joyce, she has written on the work of the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector, Maurice Blanchot, Franz Kafka, Heinrich von Kleist, Michel de Montaigne, Ingeborg Bachmann, Thomas Bernhard, and the Russian poet Maria Tsvetayeva. http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu