This lecture considers the growth of pictorial art during the Han dynasty (208 BCE to AD 220), beginning with paintings on silk (including the famous 'flying garment") from the tombs at Changsha, continuing with pictures on tomb objects (mingqi) and lacquer designs, and ending with the remarkable relief pictures on tomb tiles found in Sichuan. Early renderings of space and the beginnings of expressive rushwork are revealed in visual analyses of all these.
James Clifford, Professor Emeritus, History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz; James Clifford, Associate Professor of English, Ohio State University; William Ferris, Former Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities and Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Stanley Katz, Former President of the American Council of Learned Societies and Professor in Public and International Affairs, Princeton University; Catharine Stimpson, University Professor and former Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science, New York University; M. Belinda Tucker, Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and Faculty Associate, Bunche Center for African American Studies, UCLA
The academy has been under considerable pressure recently, both fiscally and fueled by new pressures on knowledge formation, and on pedagogical, and organizational form. The university as such has come into question, both within and without. This understandably has prompted both anxiety and critical responses among faculty, students, research and administrative staff. At the same time, there has been much less focus on the university we might be for, that which we might work together to promote, whether in the tradition of Bishop Newman's or Jan Pelikan's reflections on "the idea of the university" or in Jacques Derrida's critical conception of the university without condition. The distinguished panel will lead a discussion of "the university we are for". Please join us in the second of a series on what should be a dynamic discussion of a set of issues crucial to the contemporary academy.
BEPP's first public lecture,“SEEING VOICES”
presented by Carl Haber, Senior Scientist, LBNL and 2013 MacArthur Fellow.
Sound was first recorded and reproduced by Thomas Edison in 1877. Until about 1950, when magnetic tape use became common, most recordings were made on mechanical media such as wax, foil, shellac, lacquer, and plastic. Some of these older recordings contain material of great historical interest, are in obsolete formats, and are damaged, decaying, or are considered too delicate to play.
Unlike print and latent image scanning, the playback of mechanical sound carriers has been an inherently invasive process. Recently, a series of techniques, based upon optics and computing, have been applied to create and analyze high resolution images of these materials. By modeling the stylus motion the recorded sound can be reconstructed with no contact to the material. This approach, and current results, including studies of some of the earliest known sound recordings and unique ethnographic materials, are the focus of this talk and will be illustrated with sounds and images.
eCHEM 1A: Online General Chemistry
College of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/echem1a
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