"Nine Classic Paintings Revisited" is the second of two lectures presented by filmmaker Peter Greenaway as the 2010-2011 Avenali Chair in the Humanities at the Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley. Best known for such films as The Draughtsman's Contract (1982), The Cook, the Thief, his Wife & her Lover (1989), The Pillow Book (1996), The Tulse Luper Suitcases (2003-2004), and Nightwatching (2007), Greenaway has worked more recently on numerous exhibitions and installations in Europe, from Venice's Palazzo Fortuny and Barcelona's Joan Miró Gallery to Rotterdam's Boymans van Beuningen Gallery and Paris' Louvre. Regularly nominated for the film festival competitions of Cannes, Venice, and Berlin, Greenaway has also published books, written opera librettos, and collaborated with composers Michael Nyman, Philip Glass, Louis Andriessen, Borut Krzisnik, and David Lang, among others.
Sponsor: Townsend Center for the Humanities http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/
Hans Kundnani, German Marshall Fund
"Economic Interdependence and Collective Memory in International Relations: Lessons from Germany for Asia?"
Yung-hsiang Frank Ying, National Taiwan Normal University
"The Entangled Issues of Social Justices and Globalization: A case of Integrated or Divided Taiwan"
Birgit Geipel, UC Riverside
"North Korea's Unification with(out) the South: Ideological Survival Strategies in the Post-Socialist Era"
CUMULATIVE IMPACTS AND CHILDREN'S ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH | 2013 Symposium
MORE INFO: http://circle.berkeley.edu/kidsCimpacts.html
RELATED PLAYLIST: 2012 Symposium http://www.youtube.com/course?list=ECBFF2D8E138A22D23
Our panel presents their ideas about what could be done to better address cumulative impacts for children. Watch comments from:
• Professor Rachel Morello-Frosch , UC Berkeley http://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/people_profiles/rachel-morello-frosch/
• Dr. Joseph K. Lyou, President and CEO, Coalition for Clean Air http://ccair.org/
• Dr. Gina Solomon, Deputy Secretary for Science and Health, California Environmental Protection Agency http://www.calepa.ca.gov/
• Bonnie Holmes-Gen, Policy Director, American Lung Association of California http://www.lung.org/associations/states/california/
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Producing Knowledge about China: Social Science Perspectives
Roundtable: Learning About Chinese Politics: Area Studies, Theory and Local Knowledge
Moderator: Wen-hsin Yeh, Director, Institute of East Asian Studies, Haas Chair in East Asian Studies, Morrison Chair in History, University of California, Berkeley
The Peephole Method: Producing Ethnographic Knowledge about Rural China
Hans Steinmüller, Research Fellow, Department II Socialist and Post‐Socialist Eurasia, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Local People Producing Local Knowledge
John Kennedy, Associate Professor, University of Kansas, and co-director of the Northwest Socio-economic Development Research Center (NSDRC), Xian, China
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