Learning about the Chinese People: Local Knowledge and Global Context
Producing Knowledge about China: Social Science Perspectives
Roundtable: Learning about the Chinese People: Local Knowledge and Global Context Moderator: Xin Liu, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
China and Psych Knowledge in Global Encounters Li Zhang, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis
Chinese Automobility and US Rhetorics of Identity Cotten Seiler, Associate Professor and Chair of American Studies, Dickinson College ...
"Squeezed between Rice and Potato: Personal Reflections on a Dutch (Post-)Colonial Youth."
Keynote lecture by Dutch author Adriaan van Dis at the Dutch Studies Conference on Colonial and Postcolonial Connections in Dutch Literature. University of California Berkeley, Sept. 16, 2011. Introduction by Jeroen Dewulf, Queen Beatrix Professor in Dutch Studies. http://dutch.berkeley.edu
Adriaan van Dis was born in 1946 into a family of repatriates from the Dutch East Indies, today's Indonesia. His childhood was marked by the repatriate milieu. Van Dis presents in this lecture a series of personal experiences that connect the mythological Dutch Indies with the color-sensitive South Africa, another former Dutch colony. Being himself a child of two cultures, the topic of cultural mixture is his main focus. For him, as a writer, it naturally implies a strong interest in Creole languages, or in the question of how race and racial discrimination can also influence linguistics. Van Dis concludes his lecture by highlighting similarities between his own post-colonial youth and that of the contemporary immigrant cultures in Europe. Clean your ears: the author will sing!
eCHEM 1A: Online General Chemistry
College of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
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Curriculum and ChemQuizzes developed by Dr. Mark Kubinec and Professor Alexander Pines
Chemical Demonstrations by Lonnie Martin
Video Production by Jon Schainker and Scott Vento
Developed with the support of The Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation
UC Berkeley's 2010 Commencement speech calls for Moxie. Honored by Newsweek as one of the "Women Shaping the 21st Century," Tiffany Shlain is an acclaimed filmmaker, artist, founder of The Webby Awards, co-founder of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences and a Henry Crown Fellow of The Aspen Institute.
Few people could appreciate the use of tweets and text messages more than keynote speaker Tiffany Shlain who addressed a sold-out audience of 11,500 people. Shlain noted that the World Wide Web was in its infancy when she graduated from UC Berkeley in 1992. Director Shlain urged graduates to take risks and tackle challenges in life with "moxie -- a mixture of being bold, fearless and a little outrageous," and recounted times in her career when she was able to get doors to open for her with such an approach. Sunday marked the first time that Commencement Convocation was held at the 11,500-seat Haas Pavilion. The event, traditionally held at the Greek Theatre, which seats 7,200, was relocated to accommodate a greater demand for tickets.
Keynote Speaker: Tiffany Shlain
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